Word: madrid
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Said Santiago Carrillo, secretary-general of the Spanish Communist Party: "I feel very much moved. Until today it was I who had to be received by them, in Rome or in Paris, and now it is I who can receive them in Madrid." With those words and a couple of warm abrazos, Carrillo welcomed Party Chieftains Enrico Berlinguer of Italy and Georges Marchais of France for a day and a half of Euro-Communist summitry in Madrid...
...Spanish party's struggle for legalization and a significant event in the development of Western Europe's own brand of Communism. For years, Berlinguer and like-minded comrades have claimed that they are: 1) independent from Moscow and 2) devoted to the democratic process. The Madrid get-together was eagerly watched for signs of just how far the three leaders would dare to go toward those stated goals. As it turned out, not all that...
Still, Euro-Communism's top three parties are scheduled to convene in Madrid in the coming weeks, and the Spanish Communists are prepared to press for "an elaborate and strong declaration on the problem of dissent in Eastern Europe...
...assassins came late in the evening, two men in their 20s wearing green topcoats. In third-floor offices at Calle Atocha 55 in downtown Madrid, eight young lawyers employed by the Communist-dominated labor-federation comisiones obreras (workers' commissions) were still in their offices when the pair burst through the door. Brandishing automatic weapons apparently equipped with silencers, they herded a male receptionist and the lawyers, one of them a woman, into a semicircle and ordered them to hold their hands in the air. One of the team of killers ripped out telephone lines, while the other demanded...
...lawyers' office was one of several grisly episodes in a savage spasm of violence in Spain last week, the worst in recent memory. It claimed a total of ten lives, including those of three policemen who were shot down by unidentified gunmen in working-class suburbs of Madrid. A purportedly leftist terrorist group called GRAPO (an acronym in Spanish for Oct. 1 Antifascist Resistance Groups) claimed responsibility for the police killings, but the initial bloody attacks of the week, including that against the Communist lawyers, were evidently the work of right-wing extremists. Said one Western analyst in Madrid...