Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signs of Spain's new international standing are abundant. Along the stately, tree-lined Paseo de la Castellana, a boulevard that runs through Madrid's main business district, a rush by foreign banks and other multinational companies to rent or buy scarce office space has helped raise real estate prices 20% over the past year. U.S., European and Japanese businessmen throng Spanish golf courses and savor Madrid's night life...
...support his life-style. His twelve estates around the world include a 180,000-acre ranch in Kenya and a $30 million apartment that takes up two entire floors of a luxury building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He has homes in Marbella, Paris, Cannes, the Canary Islands, Madrid, Rome, Beirut, Riyadh, Jidda and Monte Carlo. His 282- ft. yacht Nabila (complete with helicopter) makes Queen Elizabeth's Britannia look like a package-tour ship. His fleet includes three commercial- size jets, twelve stretch Mercedes limousines, a total of 100 vehicles and a stable of Arabian horses...
...government's headaches did not end there. Le Canard Enchaine, a satirical Paris weekly, charged that a French counterespionage agent had met with an "emissary" of the F.A.R.L. in Madrid last May; following that encounter and other alleged contacts in Damascus, the group had suspended its terrorist attacks in Paris in exchange for possible French leniency toward Abdallah. According to Le Canard, the deal was scotched when the U.S. intervened with a civil suit against Abdallah for his suspected role in the 1982 murder of the U.S. military attache. Chirac denied that his government had ever negotiated with the F.A.R.L...
...than U.S. accusations that government bigwigs are involved in drug trafficking. Last week the Mexicans were angrily denying a report in the San Diego Union charging that Defense Minister General Juan Arevalo Gardoqui was one of 45 law-enforcement and political figures linked to narcotics. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado took the allegation so seriously that an official was dispatched to Washington to inquire whether the charges reflected U.S. thinking...
...threat. Negotiations are thus a spur, not a deterrent, to terror. Whenever a "peace scare" breaks out, terrorism increases, as King Hussein of Jordan is well aware. During the time he was trying to arrange for joint Jordanian- Palestinian negotiations with Israel, his diplomats in Ankara, Bucharest and Madrid were assassinated. The talks are off now, and Jordanians abroad are enjoying a rare respite from attack...