Word: madrid
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Washington, said Shultz, would be watching especially for signs that Soviet negotiators are ready for "a process of give and take" in arms-control talks already under way in Geneva and Vienna, and human rights discussions in progress in Madrid. The U.S. would welcome other steps, like a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan or an easing of martial law in Poland, he asserted, but these are not matters for direct talks between Washington and Moscow...
...symbol of reconciliation for a young democracy racked by leftist terrorism on the one hand and threatened on the other by disgruntled right-wingers anxious to return to the dictatorial days of Francisco Franco. Only three days before the Pope's white Alitalia 727 touched down at Madrid's Barajas Airport, Spanish voters had given Socialist Felipe González Márquez, 40, a landslide victory in national elections. Arriving during a tense period of political transition, the Pope told King Juan Carlos, González and the nation's military leaders, "I would like...
...pointed use of "legitimate," the Pope was indirectly expressing his disapproval of earlier right-wing attempts to overthrow the government. The papal defense of democracy proved sadly timely. Two days later, terrorists struck in Madrid in what outgoing Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo called "a provocation, not only against the armed forces but against the Spanish people who voted massively for harmony." Two men mounted on motorbikes used submachine guns to riddle the official car of Major General Victor Lago Román, 63, who, after the dismissal of right-wing officers last year, was named commander of the Brunete...
Shortly after his warm handshake with González at the royal palace (González, a nonpracticing Catholic, bowed but did not kiss the Pope's ring), John Paul II spoke at a Mass in Madrid's Plaza de Lima before more than a million cheering spectators, one of the largest crowds he has drawn in any of his 16 trips abroad. Standing beneath a 30-ft.-high cross on a podium draped in white and yellow papal bunting, the Pontiff put forward in exceptionally strong terms his conservative position on marriage and the family. The Socialists...
...flush of the Socialists' victory, González and his fellow moderates may come under heavy pressure from their left wing to launch radical economic and social programs. "To the extent that Felipe may have to accommodate some of that leftist pressure," said a diplomatic observer in Madrid, "it would invite a strong attack from the right...