Word: madrid
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Last week the Madrid government finally permitted its tightly controlled press to report that the Spanish garrison at Ifni had taken a beating. The first official casualty list enumerated 62 dead, more than 100 wounded. The government admitted that the Spanish defenders had abandoned the frontier outposts to the invading Moroccan irregulars, and had drawn back to regroup around the town of Sidi Ifni itself. Farther south in the Spanish Sahara, the Moroccan Liberation Army announced an offensive on Al Auin, declared that five desert outposts had been "liberated," with Spanish losses of 120 dead...
Spanish newspapers printed disturbing reports of Moroccan savagery against Spanish civilians: one eyewitness said he had seen the mangled body of a pregnant Spanish woman who had been raped, then disemboweled by tribesmen. (By contrast, said a Madrid communique. Spanish forces gave humane consideration to the "wife of a well-known extremist who fled his village, leaving her behind with three children of less than three years. Every time our planes flew over the village, they remembered to drop by parachute condensed milk and food for the little ones...
...south, where armed bands massacred the Spanish lighthouse keeper and his family of six at Cape Bojador and attacked a Spanish army convoy at Al Auin near the western coast of the Spanish Sahara, even tougher tribesmen were reported taking up arms against Madrid's rule. They were the towering, long-haired R'Guibat tribesmen known as the "blue men" because their robes are colored with an indigo dye that rubs off onto their skin. Rich and, until recently, gunrunning, slave-trafficking nomads who hold a virtual monopoly on camel raising in the western Sahara, they hold colonial...
...Moroccans managed to hang on to some of Ifni's border outposts. Spanish paratroops dropped from the skies to retake one, a heavy cruiser lobbed shells into others. Madrid ordered World War II Heinkels and Messerschmitts south from the mainland to bomb and strafe along the ill-defined frontier. Istiqlal partisans charged that the Spanish were striking roads and villages on the Moroccan side. In Rabat young (28) Crown Prince Moulay Hassan ordered Moroccan troops to shoot back at any plane attacking Moroccan territory, and indicated that Morocco would demand "our door to the Sahara"-that part...
Tragedy in Barcelona. The excitement in Mexico City and Paris was mild compared to the roaring ole that has greeted the latest shows of 20-year-old, Manhattan-born Joan Markson, who signs herself with an Italianate flourish as "Giovannella." At her first show four months ago in Madrid, one critic wrote, "She approaches Goya . . . approximates Rembrandt . . . will have an outstanding name in the painting of our time...