Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited Brasilia last week to confer with his Brazilian counterpart, Joào Figueiredo. The two leaders had some blunt words for their creditors. Figueiredo complained of high interest rates that "threaten to perpetuate our foreign debt problems." De la Madrid said, with much justification, that Latin America could not boost exports enough to pay its debts if creditor countries erected "ever increasing protectionist measures" against imports from the developing nations. The day before De la Madrid spoke, the Reagan Administration announced a cutback in the number of products allowed to enter...
...listener in mind of Richard Strauss's dictum that only the audience should sweat at a concert, never the conductor. In the first section of Debussy's Iberia, Celibidache's unerring grasp of detail evokes a Spanish haze that shimmers like the heat off a Madrid sidewalk in midsummer. The cool, nocturnal redolence of the slow movement, Les parfums de la nuit, hangs suspended in the air until dispersed by the boisterousness of the finale...
...quick that you didn't know the policies of who you were voting for." Juan Corbello '85, a transfer student from the University of San Louis in Madrid, said yesterday...
...accounts, Juan Carlos has not let success go to his head. Since he warded off a military coup in 1981, the urbane, cosmopoli- lan monarch has lived modestly in his palace in Madrid...
...Bourbon dynasty, was born in 1936 in Rome, where his family moved during the Spanish Civil War. He returned to Spain at age nine and was educated in the military and the law. His wife, Princess Sophia of Greece, has a Ph.D. and reportedly teaches at the University of Madrid. The couple has three children--two daughters and a son--in high school in Madrid...