Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many ways it might have recalled the stark menace of a Goya tableau. The Deputies in Spain's 350-seat lower house were halfway through their vote on a new government when the heavy rococo doors of the Cortes, the country's parliament in the center of Madrid, burst open. In rushed a dozen armed attackers, most of them wearing olive drab parkas and blue jeans. In the marble corridors outside the chamber, some 200 uniformed men nervously fingered their weapons as they sealed off the exits. The invaders fired their submachine guns at the ceiling to drown...
...thing that seemed certain was the Spanish people's overwhelming belief in democracy and their joy at its deliverance. At week's end, millions filled the streets in nationwide demonstrations that were endorsed by all the major political parties. Nearly one-fourth of Madrid's population marched from Glorieta de Embajadores toward the Plaza de las Cortes. The festive mood was only slightly marred when ultrarightists set off three harmless bombs along the parade route. This time, at least, they were only a rude and futile gesture that hardly interrupted the chants of "Liberty, democracy...
...before he was murdered by Franco sympathizers at the beginning of the Civil War, the paramilitary Guardia Civil was already a widely feared institution in Spain. Since its formation in 1844 during the Bourbon monarchy, the corps had been the efficient internal security force of the central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus hardly anyone in Spain was surprised last week when the coup attempt turned out to be spearheaded...
...King Juan Carlos had visited the Basque area early this month, and moderate Basques had been outraged at the murder of a nuclear engineer by members of E.T.A., the Basque separatist organization. Then a fortnight ago, a suspected E.T.A. terrorist named José Arregui died in police custody in Madrid. An autopsy showed evidence of torture. The scandal forced the arrests or resignations of several police officials, brought tens of thousands of angry Basques into the streets -and all but ended E.T.A.'s growing isolation among Basque moderates. Under the circumstances, the Basque Nationalist Party informed Calvo-Sotelo, there...
...husband King Paul in 1964, mother of exiled King Constantine and strong-willed matriarch whose imperious demands and interventions in Greek politics sent mobs into Athens' streets and might have helped pave the way for the monarchy's overthrow in 1967; of heart failure after surgery; in Madrid, where she was visiting her daughter Queen Sofia of Spain...