Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Free-For-AII. In political Madrid there is a sense of great expectation on the part of left, right and center politicians alike. Reports TIME Madrid Bureau Chief Gavin Scott: "The old guard of political hacks who owed their positions to the Generalissimo lament his absence, of course. But even within the regime he left behind there is a prevailing opinion that Spain needs to press forward politically-and the process is becoming an exciting free...
...sports-loving King (golf, sailing, karate) was criticized for his seeming lethargy during the first three months of his reign, when he seldom ventured far from his modest, mauve stucco Zarzuela palace near Madrid. "What can the man do?" shrugged a Communist leader. "He is the lackey of the system." Replied a high government official: "Patience. Patience. The post-Franco era has barely begun." Then, after ugly rioting in industrial Barcelona, the capital of Catalonian separatism, the palace announced that the royal couple would make a number of tours to the disparate regions?starting with Catalonia...
King Simeon II of Bulgaria, 38, who considers his job that of "keeping the Bulgarian spirit alive"-notably in the U.S., where there are 50,000 of his fellow-countrymen. He is married to a Spanish aristocrat and lives in Madrid with their four sons and a daughter...
King Leka of Albania, 37, is the tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) of the monarchs-in-waiting and comes from the youngest royal house (founded 1928). Married to the daughter of an Australian sheep farmer, he lives near Madrid. He is a friend of Ronald Reagan (to whom he once gave a baby elephant) and keeps in touch with the 3 million Albanians in exile...
...cousin of the last czar and claimant to the throne of Russia. Born in exile, he has never set foot in Russia, but travels widely, visiting Russian émigré colonies. He is married to Grand Duchess Leonida, whose family ruled Georgia for 13 centuries. They live in Madrid and have one daughter...