Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March 2, 1976, five armed men with machine guns kidnapped, interrogated and tortured Jose Antonio Martinez Soler, a Spanish journalist from Madrid and now a Nieman Fellow...
...step toward national reconciliation." Social Democratic Leader Antonio Garcia López went further. He described it as "the first dramatic step toward dismantling the dictatorship." Both men were referring to King Juan Carlos' decree granting amnesty to political prisoners in Spain, which was formally promulgated in Madrid last week. Although less sweeping than leftists and moderates had hoped, the decree could affect more than half of the 1,600 Spaniards who have been imprisoned for political crimes or have otherwise been penalized for illegal, quasi-political acts...
...territory was the Las Palmas G.C. in the Canary Islands formed in 1891, which is incidentally the home course of two-time Ivy League champion and Harvard's leading golfer, Alex Vik. It was another 13 years until golf sunk roots in the mainland with the establishment of the Madrid Polo Club. As late as 1959, though, Spain could boast of only fourteen clubs. By 1970, the number has sprouted...
Spain took another giant step out from the shadow of Francisco Franco last week-and right into the first political crisis of King Juan Carlos' reign. In a move that surprised even his closest aides, Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, 67, went to Madrid's Royal Palace and submitted his resignation to the King. Juan Carlos, according to the constitution, had ten days to choose a new Premier. Last Saturday, he named Adolfo Suárez González, the secretary general of Spain's only legal party, the National Movement. A close friend of the King...
...Communism to the U.S. has not involved East Europeans but Cubans, first the rich with their bank accounts and crated furniture, finally barefoot fishermen in tiny dinghies. Even now, with no direct transportation between Cuba and the U.S., some 300 refugees, many of them old and sick, fly to Madrid every week. There, usually living on charity, they have to wait at least three months, often much longer, while five harassed U.S. officials try to process their papers. (Foundry Operator Victor Valles Solan, who took off last week, had waited two years for clearance...