Word: juan
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Both speeches were little more than exercises in fantasy. In fact, it was the Argentine military that had acted in both situations, adroitly defusing the coup and smashing the terrorist assault in the bloodiest government-guerrilla engagement to date. While Juan Perón's petulant widow went through the motions of governing as if in a trance and the nation hung ever more precariously on the precipice of political and economic chaos, many Argentines wondered why the military did not simply end the charade and officially take command...
Seen as a group of objects, "Patterns of Collection" is nothing less than superb. Some of the works in it have already been harried to the edge of cliche by publicity-the Euphronios krater, the Velásquez Juan de Pareja. But the Met is above all an encyclopedia. Its 18 departments cover virtually every kind of art ever created. So there is a great deal in the show that will be unfamiliar to even the most assiduous Metropolitan goer, and the general level is high. One would have to travel a long way east of New York to find...
DONANA: SPAIN'S WILDLIFE WILDERNESS by Juan Antonio Fernández. 253 pages. Taplinger. $29.95. Tucked away in a corner of Spain, southwest of Seville, is the Coto de Doñana habitat for rare and endangered species: the imperial and short-toed eagles, great bustard, bee eater, azure-winged magpie and, in migration at least, the great flamingo. Those who want to view this ornithological paradise firsthand should be aware of the customary protocol: visitors must get permits from the director of the local biological station to feast their eyes on its plumed riches. This sumptuous pictorial tour...
...kind of promissory gesture toward the liberalization demanded by opponents of Francoism, Juan Carlos last week granted a general pardon that will affect some 70% of Spain's prison population. The royal pardon, however, will apply to only about half the estimated 2,000 prisoners who are serving sentences or awaiting trial for political offenses. Among those the decree explicitly excluded were 250 or so prisoners who have been charged with crimes of terrorism, propagandizing for terrorism or membership in Communist and separatist groups condemned under the draconian legislation approved last July by the Franco regime. The death penalty...
...protest the limits on the pardons, 3,000 demonstrators - perhaps the largest crowd the outlawed Spanish Communist Party has dared muster since the end of the Civil War in 1939 - gathered outside the Carabanchel Prison in the southwest outskirts of Madrid. As the Te Deum mass for Juan Carlos was scheduled to begin at San Jerónimo, the protesters marched on the sprawling prison, where a number of prominent leftists, including Trade Union Leader Marcelino Camacho, were incarcerated. Mounted police charged the crowd and dispersed them with tear gas, clubs and a water cannon. There were no injuries...