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This movie tells how 3200 Americans defied the mood that swept the United States after World War 1. Both the American and European governments ignored the Spanish Republic's plea for aid even though the newly born democracy was being challenged by the fascist front. Francisco Franco, backed with military support from Hitler and Mussolini, struggled to defeat the Spanish peasants as they fought to save their democracy. During the Spanish Civil War Hitler had his chance to test his newly created weapons and for the first time in history, civilian dwellings were bombed. In his painting filled with twisted...
...Rivera left a lot back in Cuba, including a wife, from whom he is now divorced, and their son Franco, 8, for whom his father still yearns. "I am suffering a lot because of my son," D'Rivera says, "but if they put me again in the airport of Madrid, I would do the same thing. I am in love with my country. But my country is part of my past life. I don't want to return...
...Former Army Commander in Chief Cristino Nicolaides, 59, and former Navy Commander Ruben Oscar Franco, 54, both of the last junta, who are accused of obstructing an investigation into the disappearance of Communist Party Member Ines Ollero, detained by uniformed men in 1977 and never seen again...
...latest victims were Anna Bulgari Calissoni, 56, part owner of the world-famous Bulgari jewelry chain, and her 17-year-old son Giorgio. Mrs. Calissoni, granddaughter of Constantine Bulgari, a founder of the firm, and wife of retired General Franco Calissoni, was abducted along with her son on Nov. 19 from her country home 20 miles south of Rome. It was not the first time kidnapers had singled out the family: in 1975 Gianni Bulgari, Anna's cousin, was abducted, and released only after the family paid a ransom of about $2 million. The family was believed to have...
...Francisco, as well as at the Schaumburg Snuggery. At Flip-It in Bayside, N.Y., customers get a haircut with a jolt of video rock. At the Panic House in West Hollywood, Calif., patrons can eat to videos, which seems appropriate for an establishment that bills itself as "a Franco-Japanese restaurant of the future." Up the coast, groovies of all ages can "rock and bowl" at Park Bowl, hard by San Francisco's Golden Gate, where a 9-ft. by 12-ft. screen hangs above the 22 lanes. "The normal league bowlers don't think much of this...