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Jose Maria Aznar, leader of Spain's conservative opposition Popular Party, was slightly injured in a car bombing in Madrid today. The Basque separatist group ETA is believed responsible for the attack. The attack comes four months after ETA killed another leading PP figure, Gregorio Ordonez. Many of the PP's members oppose greater autonomy for the Basque provinces. TIME Spain reporter Jane Walker says that because the provinces are essentially autonomous already, with their own schools and taxation systems, ETA has steadily lost support. Thus "Every now and then they have to attack someone to keep their name...
Several thousand Spanish fishermen pelted the Canadian Embassy in Madrid with raw eggs and dead mackerel to protest what they said was Canada's harassment of Spanish trawlers in the North Atlantic. In the latest turn in the month-long conflict overfishing and conservationin Canadian waters, Canadian patrol boats allegedly tried to snip the nets off two Spanish trawlers, and by some accounts actually boarded the vessels. Canadian officials, who have stopped European boats recently to prevent overfishing of turbot, flatly denied the charges. Still, the uproar caused international talks over the issue in Brussels to be suspended...
Ferrell's reading included the following passage: "empty streets Madrid, empty / streets Paris, empty streets / New York; even if your shape / were to haunt these byways do / you know they would still be empty / since your soul is never / was never...
DIED. PRINCE ALEXIS D'ANJOU DE BOURBON-CONDE, 47, heir presumptive to the Russian throne; of complications from brain tumors; in Madrid. Alexis claimed to be the grandson of Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of Csar Nicholas II; either Maria or her sister Anastasia, some have theorized, escaped the Bolsheviks' 1918 massacre of Russia's royal family. Last October, Alexis gave a blood sample for testing to compare his DNA with that in bone samples taken from the massacre site; no official findings have been released...
...along with what Russia has claimed to be a legal defense of conditions--brought about through coercion and held together by threat and surreptitious russification. One thing is clear: it is better to live in a quiet house than in an unsafe apartment block. Michael Wolynskyj Madrid If Yeltsin has gone too far, there is a likelihood that the President will lose his position to an opposition group, a more thoughtful and reliable choice for democratic Russia. But what if Yeltsin continues his strong line, breaking laws and violating human rights without any fear of legal reprisals? That would mean...