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Andorra's most compelling problems, however, spring from too rapid modernization and runaway growth. For centuries, the principality's hardy Catalan-speaking mountaineers tended their sheep and their meager crops in peaceful isolation from the wars and social turmoil that shaped the rest of Europe. Change came swiftly when Andorra established itself in the mid-'60s as a major duty-free area offering such irresistible bargains as gasoline and Chivas Regal at a fraction of their prices in Paris or Madrid...
...SPRING OF 1920 was a hard time for Joan Miro. The young Catalan had arrived in Paris from Spain in early 1919 when pre-war intellectual and artistic conceptions, like the European balance of power, had been swept away in blood and destruction of the World War. The Dada movement was the new wave in art--but only of the moment. And Miro, though he remained somewhat aloof from its influence, would come to be acknowledged as the formal master of the surrealist movement which grew as Dada disintegrated...
...contretemps over Leninism reached a peak during a recent conference of the Catalan branch of the party, the so-called United Socialist Party of Catalonia (P.S.U.C.), which pulled in almost a third of the 1.6 million Communist votes in last June's elections, taking eight of the 20 Communist seats in the 350-member Congress of Deputies. With Carrillo looking on unhappily, a majority of P.S.U.C. delegates declared against Thesis XV, not just because of ideological considerations, but because so major an issue had not been permitted enough discussion. They tried "Stalinist methods to democratize the party," grumbled...
After 40 years of pollution, Spain is enjoying a revitalizing political air. As a Catalan and Spaniard I proud of the democratic goals reached by my own country in such a short space of tune...
While most of Fell's theories are improbable, it is certainly possible that some of his theories are correct. He claims that his work on American inscriptions has led to the deciphering of "Catalan Greek", a language he says is written in a Phoenician-type alphabet and was used by Greek colonists living on the coast of Spain. Fell claims many European scholars have confirmed his decipherings...