Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel will sponsor a public phone call Sunday to six refuseniks in the Soviet Union who will begin a hunger strike next week to coincide with the Madrid Human Rights Conference...
...years old, was honored last week in a day of ceremonies crowned by the presentation by Juan Carlos of Spain's gold medal of fine arts. Among the other events: the opening of an exhibition of Miró's works in Madrid's Tiépolo Gallery and the official designation of a square, dominated by a huge Miró ceramic mural, as Plaza Joan Miró. "This signifies recognition of a lifetime's hard, sincere, steady work," exulted the spry octogenarian. "Yes," sighed his wife, Doña Pilar Juncosa, "if only now he would...
When London's West Ham United lost 3-1 to Madrid's Castilla last month, the English soccer team's unruly fans urinated and spat on Spanish supporters, pelted the field with beer cans and fought with local police. To show that it would no longer put up with such antics, which are fast becoming a fixture of soccer matches, the European Football Union levied the penultimate penalty: West Ham would have to play its home game to an empty house. Last week the two teams played an evening match before a genteel throng...
...successful post-Franco transition, has seemed increasingly bogged down by the intractable problems of 16% inflation, 10% unemployment and the stubborn wave of separatist terrorism. The partial autonomy recently granted to the provinces of Catalonia and the Basque country has similarly failed to diminish their regional resentment against Madrid. Stung by his setbacks, Suárez withdrew into his Moncloa Palace. Spaniards generally lost heart, wondering if democracy meant stagnation and fearing the alternatives of the political extremes...
...Barrio Chino, the red-light district of fin de siècle Barcelona, the city to which the family had moved when he was five. Some of his earliest work was inspired by the putas and dancers of that wicked cosmopolitan seaport. Though he later won admission to Madrid's esteemed Academy of San Fernando, an art school, he did not take his studies seriously, preferring to spend his time in the Prado and other museums -and in the demimonde with other young artists and poets...