Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magnitude; some 300 of its works have come to MOMA for the present show. Moreover, 1980 is likely to be the last year in which Guernica, lent to MOMA by Picasso in 1939, can be seen in the U.S. It will go to Spain, probably to the Prado in Madrid, in accordance with Picasso's wishes...
...done in Afghanistan, or they will deepen the confrontation. Either course is undesirable. And that is the risk we are running with France, the Federal Republic and the new Secretary of State all planning uncoordinated talks with the Soviets and a European security conference looming in the fall in Madrid...
...bombings so far this year. The government strategy backfired: political parties allied with the ETA, which demands independence for the Basques, won 17 of the parliament's 60 seats. As a whole, Basque autonomist parties captured 42 seats to a mere six for Suárez's Madrid-based centrists. In the capital, senior members of the government morosely described the result as "a disaster...
...their complaints about Suárez, few politicians believe that the Premier is likely to be unseated soon; all parties agree that another election would not really change the present balance of forces. But Suárez has shown signs of personal frustration. He has tended to withdraw inside Madrid's Moncloa Palace and surround himself with a coterie of protective advisers. An aide even goes so far as to liken his isolation to that of Richard Nixon in the White House...
...ominous symptom of malaise is the growing visibility of a neofascist movement called the Fuerza Nueva (New Force). The party, led by a wealthy Madrid lawyer named Bias Piñar, 62, attracts alienated youth from some of Madrid's best families, who mix with a cadre of thugs and shadowy political operatives adept at exploiting a residual streak of nostalgia for the Franco era. Fuerza Nueva captured 350,000 votes-a mere .02%-in last year's national election. But the ultrarightists attract disproportionate attention with fiery street rallies and attacks, with iron bars and bicycle chains...