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...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...
...former Madrid newspaperman who did not become a priest until he was 53, Herrera was among the few Spanish churchmen to speak out publicly against corruption and injustice under Franco, steadfastly campaigned for greater freedom and better living conditions for his countrymen. Within his own bishopric of Málaga, he fought illiteracy with the construction of some 250 new elementary schools in the last 20 years...
...Europe. Two years ago, Marbella was a bleached fishing hamlet between Málaga and Gibraltar; it now has three luxury hotels, a golf club, two cinemas, scores of bars and a burgeoning skyline of glassy apartment buildings. In nearby Torremolinos, there is standing room only on the beach on many a hot August noon. The bullfight season, which for a century ended in October, now unofficially extends throughout the year on the mild south coast, and in any season, in any city, there are likely to be as many tourists as Spaniards shouting...
...Call to Málaga. Adenauer admitted that even he knew nothing of Operation Spiegel until just before the arrests were made. Who, then, was behind it? Little by little, the emerging facts pointed at a man who had been Augstein's main target for years: that baroque Bavarian, Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Defense Minister. Last week Strauss admitted that he himself had telephoned West Germany's military attaché in Madrid on the night of the arrests, ordered him to "inform" Spanish authorities that a warrant of arrest on suspicion of treason had been...
Since there is no extradition agreement between Spain and West Germany for political crimes, all this was, as the government admitted, "somewhat outside legality." But, said Adenauer, "whether Ahlers was arrested in Málaga or Hamburg does not bother me much," and he suggested blandly that procedural flaws in the case could always be investigated afterward...