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DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, Spanish writer, bon vivant and 1989 Nobel laureate in literature; in Madrid. The flamboyant author pioneered "tremendismo," a raw writing style that Spain would claim as its own, though Cela's first work, The Family of Pascal Duarte (1942), was considered so violent it was banned in his country and first published in Argentina. The novel eventually became one of the best-read works of Spanish fiction since Cervantes' Don Quixote...
...emotional renditions of the romantic Latin style of music called bolero sent her popularity skyrocketing: three compilation CDs of her work have been released in the past five years. DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, prolific, provocative author whose challenging prose won him the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature; in Madrid. One of Spain's greatest intellects of the 20th century, Cela gained entrance into the Royal Spanish Academy at 42 and was named marquess of Iria Flavia (his home village) by King Juan Carlos in 1996. DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fishing-boat captain who inspired Ernest Hemingway's Pulitzer prizewinning...
...SOUTHERN EUROPE Winter Hits with a Vengeance Winter came suddenly to southern Europe. Snowstorms swept Mediterranean coasts, cutting off villages in Corsica and bringing temperatures of -10?C to Turin and Madrid. Greece was badly affected, with more than 300 northern villages snowed in, all northern airports closed and 2 m drifts halting a train for 17 hours near the northern village of Petrades. In Turkey a man froze to death in Istanbul as snow cut off access to thousands of villages. Heavy rain caused floods that claimed seven lives...
...indictment reveals that Spanish police have had the Abu Dahdah cell under surveillance for at least four years. Yarkas took control of a radical group called the Soldiers of Allah in October 1995 when its former leader, Palestinian-born Anwar Saleh, known as Sheik Salah, suddenly left Madrid for Peshawar, Pakistan. There, according to French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, Salah became a key talent scout for al-Qaeda, sending the most promising recruits on to a training camp near Jalalabad. Garzón alleges that Yarkas and his co-conspirators were on the move constantly to send recruits and, when...
Spanish intelligence sources have suggested to their foreign counterparts that some members of the Abu Dahdah cell may have met with Atta in the coastal town of Salou during his still largely unexplained 10-day Spanish sojourn in July. Last week investigators in Madrid would say only that they were still looking into that. Said one: "There?s no question that Spain was not just a strategic zone for laundering money and identities, but also a natural meeting point for Islamic militants from all over...