Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That speech came as a climax to a late night vigil at Socialist election headquarters in Madrid's Palace Hotel. A crowd of some 4,000 applauded as results were flashed on a giant 30-ft. color-television screen outside the hotel. Party workers sent up occasional chants of "Felipe, Presidentel Felipe, Presidente!" while other supporters converged on the capital's main square, singing, dancing and hugging one another. One grizzled workingman with a red bandanna on his neck embraced a well-wisher with tears in his eyes and announced hoarsely, "España socialista!" Overall, however...
González's campaign ended in Madrid, where a crowd of 200,000 gathered under floodlights to cheer him. Following an elaborate multimedia show, González appeared at the podium for his final pre-election speech. His intense, perspiring face was projected on a giant TV screen, erected over the center stage, that enabled the crowd to see the candidate's face from half a mile away. Dressed in a gray flannel suit and sporting fashionably long hair, González called the election "a plebiscite, which confronts the people with a choice between a Socialist...
...John Paul spoke pit later with one of his strongest statements on what his church calls "family issues" at a twilight, open-air "Mass for the Christian Family." Police estimated 1.5 million people jammed the Pasco de la Castelluna, one of Madrid's main arteries...
...Three artillery colonels have been arrested and held for trial on charges of sedition, and other plotters were placed under house arrest. The two major conspirators convicted for the 1981 coup attempt to seize the Cortes, Lieut. General Jaime Miláns del Bosch and Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Madrid were suspected of involvement in the new plot and swiftly transferred to different prisons. The country reacted calmly, but the aborted coup injected a new factor of suspense into the campaign. Said González last week: "We have all spent years trying to re-create a civilized Spain...
...Argentinian First Lady's fundraising drive. But Che's lyrics also describe the success of the musical itself. After its 1978 London premier. Evita arrived on Broadway, where it swept the 1979-80 Tony Awards. Since then, road companies have opened in, among other places, Chicago, Los Angeles, Vienna, Madrid, Mexico City, South Africa, Australia and Japan. Reportedly, the yen continue to roll in as Evita finally begins its first Boston engagement...