Word: corte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When solicitous old friends asked Manuel Cortés Quero, 63, how he was feeling, he replied: "These shoes are killing me." With good reason. For the past 30 years Cortés has been shoeless, padding around in carpet slippers in an upstairs room of his house in Mijas, above the seaport of Málaga. His self-imposed imprisonment ended last week when Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered an amnesty for all survivors of the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War of three decades...
...Cortés had not only served on the Republican side but, even worse, had before the war been elected mayor of the Andalusian village of Mijas, running on the ticket of the moderate Socialist Workers party. When the army revolted against the republic, bloodletting took place in rural Mijas in retaliation. Recalling those events, Cortés says now: "I had no forces of order at my disposal. I was helpless to stop them. But they were not crimes by the people here. Others came from the outside...
Walled Up. When the war ended in 1939, the Republican units disintegrated. Thousands of ex-soldiers, fearful of the victors' vengeance, fled across the French border. Cortés found himself in Valencia, far from the safety of any international border. Besides, his wife Juliana and his infant daughter Maria were back in Mijas. Then Corts was, in a sense, paroled by the victorious Falangists: he was given a railway ticket and told to return to Mijas, there to report to an office that was judging local Republicans...
...Cortés made his way back to his village by night, circling through outlying fields until he was directly above Mijas, which clings to a clifflike promontory above the Mediterranean. He moved cautiously past his neighbors' shuttered houses and knocked softly at his father's door. Juliana and the baby were quickly sent for, but his wife was dismayed by Manuel's reluctant decision to follow orders and turn himself in. "Don't go," she said. "Don't even think about it. They'll kill...
...blind item (since it is still giving low-priced previews), this work by John Guare (author of last year's "Muzeeka") looks promising. At the CORT, W. 48th...