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...help from his pro-NATO parliamentary opponents, led by Manuel Fraga Iribarne of the Popular Alliance Party. Fraga has seized on the issue as a way to embarrass the Socialists and has urged his followers to abstain. But last week a prominent member of the Popular Alliance, Maria Fernandez Espana, resigned, saying that the party's policy was "dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain a Crucial Vote on Nato | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

LALO: Symphonie Espagnole; SARASATE: Zigeunerweisen. Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Orchestre National de France (Angel; LP or CD). The Symphonie Espagnole is a puzzlement. Neither a symphony nor a concerto, and no more authentically Spanish than Chabrier's Espana or Ravel's Rhapsodie Espagnole, Lalo's five-movement showpiece for violin and orchestra has never won a firm place in the standard repertory. Sometimes in performance, it even has its third movement omitted, for unfathomable reasons. But a high-spirited, sensitive soloist can make it effective, and Mutter, 22, is that ideal performer. A German whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing Down the Gauntlet | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...town, the houses are whitewashed and highlighted in brilliant colors. The main sights are the cathedral, the Casa de Pilatos and the Alcazar; in each, you can see the upheavals the church, nobility, and military underwent from the time of the Moors through the 18th century. The Plaza de Espana, a tile masterpiece, is a 19th-century nightmare vision of Moorish construction...

Author: By Laura K. Jereski, | Title: Remains of a Romantic Vision | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...strike in May of 1958, Spam's tiny but tightly organized Communist Party was determined that this year would be different. In the biggest flood of anti-Franco propaganda ever, they printed up hundreds of thousands of leaflets to prepare the workers to do their part when Radio Espana Independiente in Communist Prague gave the signal. To some of these leaflets they signed the names of liberal and Roman Catholic organizations that had not even been consulted. "A truly national movement!" cried the Communist radio. But when the big day finally arrived last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Communist Flop | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...terraced city of Tetuan, 10.000 Arabs and Berber tribesmen chanted Viva Espana! and begged Spain's help in throwing off 50 years of French authority in Morocco. In Madrid. Falangist hoodlums stoned the British embassy; in Seville, they screamed "Franco! Franco! We want Gibraltar." All last week, in an outburst of diplomatic orneriness, Spain set out to antagonize its neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Amazing Franco | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

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