Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spanish title of Donoso's novel, Casa de Campo,is also the name of a park just outside of Madrid Donoso clearly does not intend the park's name as the title's only significance like other things in the book, however, the title points out ward and suggests a similarity between the Ventures' escape from the capital city and excursions in Casa de Campo. It suggests that the Venturas never left the city even in their isolation. The title's anchor in Madrid conveys the paradox of Donoso's pretended vacuum and stands as a monument...
Perhaps Durazo thought no one would notice. Shortly after he was booted out of office in November 1982 by incoming President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, he made a declaration of goods, claiming to be worth $600,000. Alas, appraisers say the construction of a single security wall around one of his vast compounds would cost $250,000. An estimate of the civil servant's net worth: $12.5 million...
...leave the country to find home, and he had to be careful to give no sign at all of his travel plans. Passing through Madrid on a band tour in the spring of 1980, Sax Player Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban born and Cuban bred, was at the airport, bag packed as usual for another gig. Inside his luggage, however, was a carefully weighted assortment of stones, an army boot and a piece of a baseball bat. By the time the bag was stashed on the plane, D'Rivera was on his way into Madrid, planning his route...
...left a lot back in Cuba, including a wife, from whom he is now divorced, and their son Franco, 8, for whom his father still yearns. "I am suffering a lot because of my son," D'Rivera says, "but if they put me again in the airport of Madrid, I would do the same thing. I am in love with my country. But my country is part of my past life. I don't want to return...
With the Geneva talks ruptured, the Stockholm conference has become the focus of hopes for some movement out of the superpower impasse. Under the terms of the final document of the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Stockholm gathering is not even supposed to discuss nuclear arms control. Instead, the estimated 350 delegates from Europe, the U.S. and Canada will discuss ways of reducing the risk of a conventional war in Europe...