Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...upward surge of the superdollar was news around the globe. THE DOLLAR IS DEFYING ALL LAWS OF GRAVITY exclaimed Madrid's financial daily Cinco Dias. Newspapers across France's wide political spectrum were equally excited. Read the front page of Paris' conservative Le Figaro: OVER 10 FRANCS, THE DOLLAR HAS GONE THROUGH THE CEILING. One edition of the Socialist tabloid Le Matin included a replica of a $1 bill. By buying a copy for the newsstand price of 4 francs, the newspaper proclaimed, readers could get a "dollar" at a 60% discount...
...rumor had swirled through Madrid well before Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez confirmed it late last week: two U.S. officials were expelled from Spain earlier this month for "activities incompatible with their diplomatic status." According to diplomats in the Spanish capital, Denis MacMahan, a political officer in the U.S. embassy, and John Massey, an official at the air base in nearby Torrejon, were discovered taking photographs of the radio antennas atop Moncloa Palace, the Prime Minister's office and home...
...Star Wars separate from proposals for missile reductions. The next round of ; arms talks will be three-pronged, with separate negotiations on medium-range and long-range missiles and defense systems like Star Wars. The Administration announced last week that Washington Lawyer Max Kampelman, who successfully negotiated the Madrid agreement on European security and human rights in 1983, will be in overall charge of the U.S. delegation and also handle the talks on space weapons. Former Senator John Tower will be the U.S. negotiator on strategic weapons, and career Diplomat Maynard Glitman will be the point man on the intermediate...
...loan money was used to fund an expanded government, but Mexico's new leaders are technocrats who lack the political savvy and personal forcefulness of their predecessors. Miguel de la Madrid, K-School grad and Mexico's current President, has grown increasingly unpopular as he has responded to the nation's financial straits by slashing social programs. The current budget cuts are the first for many years in Mexico, where presidents since the 1930s have spent to keep the myth of the just revolution alive and forestall social unrest...
...Spanish poet who won the 1977 Nobel Prize for Literature for such volumes as La Destructión o el Amor (1935) and Historia del Corazon (1954), which dwelt on themes of love, death and eternity, often employing striking mystical or surrealistic metaphors from nature; of kidney failure; in Madrid. An invalid from his mid-20s, when he contracted recurrent kidney tuberculosis, Aleixandre became part of the Generation of 1927, a brilliant group of young poets that was sundered by the 1936-39 civil war; too ill to fight or leave, he was the only member not killed or exiled...