Word: ferrol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...triumph of sorts from his debacle: he has become a folk hero to Spanish rightists. Hundreds of people visited him in the military prison at Alcalá de Henares, northeast of Madrid, forming long lines to pay their respects. The government finally moved him last week to El Ferrol in the distant northwestern region of Galicia, but the streams of admiring callers continued. Indeed, so popular has Tejero become that he is reportedly thinking of running for parliament, even from jail...