Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gromyko this week in Stockholm. Both men will be traveling to the Swedish capital to attend the opening ceremonies of the Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. It will be the first time Shultz and Gromyko have met since they exchanged angry words in Madrid last September over the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Their discussions, along with Reagan's speech, will be closely monitored by U.S. allies in Western Europe, where the rise in superpower tensions has been felt most keenly...
...grisly weekend elsewhere in Europe too. Alcala 20, a popular Madrid discothèque, was still crowded with some 500 revelers spending their Christmas bonuses early Saturday morning when the plastic curtains above the stage caught fire. Within minutes a fireball engulfed the basement dance hall, trapping many people in the cloakroom. Others suffocated or were crushed to death as they stampeded up the stairs through thick clouds of smoke toward exits that had been blocked to prevent more people from entering. The police could not immediately determine how the blaze had started. At least 78 people were killed...
...jets collide in Madrid...
...Iberia 727 carrying 84 passengers and nine crew members was roaring down the foggy runway at Madrid's Barajas Airport, taking off on a flight to Rome. Suddenly Captain Carlos Lopez Barranco glimpsed another plane rolling toward him on the runway. Desperately, he swerved right, but the left wing and a portion of the 727's fuselage slammed into the approaching Aviaco Airlines DC-9, which was taxiing out for a flight to the northern Spanish city of Santander...
...disaster has called attention to what many airline pilots regard as a critical safety deficiency at the airport. Although Madrid handles some 11 million passengers annually, it lacks the ground control radar system common at other major airports. The radar, which allows controllers to keep track of plane movements on the Tarmac even in zero visibility, might have averted last week's tragedy...