Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people into shops, and they become a little bit crazy. They just buy up the whole place," says Jeffrey Joseph, executive vice president of New York's Globus-Gateway/Cosmos Tours. "Going, their suitcases are practically empty. * But they...
...Descanso Barbeque restaurant, a popular eating place outside Madrid and only five miles from the U.S. air base at Torrejon, was packed with about 300 people last Friday night. Suddenly, an explosion tore through the building. At least 18 people died and 82 were injured. The blast may have been a terrorist attack aimed at U.S. military personnel who regularly eat at the restaurant. No Americans were killed, but eleven were injured. Two newspapers later received telephone calls claiming that ETA, the Basque separatist group, was responsible. Calls to Madrid radio stations claimed that an urban terrorist group called GRAPO...
...Madrid police were not discounting the possibility that the blast was the work of a group opposed to U.S. or North Atlantic Treaty Organization policies. Such groups have threatened to stage a demonstration to urge the Spanish government to cancel President Reagan's planned visit to Spain next month...
...Fernando, Mexico, about 90 miles from the Texas border at Brownsville. The cargo and three suspects were finally seized 25 miles south of the border city of Reynosa, Mexico, but the original drivers had escaped. In his press conference last week, Ambassador Gavin quoted Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, who called the drug crisis "a cancer" on both countries. Said Gavin: "We are in a war, and we cannot accept that Enrique Camarena died in vain...
Bilbao Sondica Airport in Spain's northern Basque country has a notorious history of foggy weather and low cloud cover. But last Tuesday morning, the skies were clear as Iberia Airlines Flight 610 from Madrid began its landing approach. A few moments later, only 19 miles from the airport, the plane struck the tip of a 177-ft.-high television antenna on Mount Oiz (elevation 3,366 ft.), burst into flames and crashed into a wooded hillside. All 148 people aboard were killed. Three Americans were among the passengers, as was Bolivia's Minister of Labor, Gonzalo Guzman...