Word: madrid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moved to the royal palace, where the King bestowed on his son the Order of Carlos III, one of Spain's highest honors. Currently a cadet at the Zaragoza Military Academy, Felipe will spend a year each in the naval and air force academies before attending the University of Madrid. And what would the Prince of Asturias like to be if he weren't going to be King Felipe VI? Perhaps in "something technical," he says, "astronomy, construction or engineering...
...very real one." So said Mexico's Finance Minister, Jesus Silva Herzog, as he emerged from a conference on the international debt crisis in London last week. Silva Herzog was not alone in that assessment. In the Caribbean resort town of Cancun, his boss, Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, was closeted for 13 hours with Venezuelan President Jaime Lusinchi to discuss the plummeting world oil prices that are squeezing their heavily indebted economies. The two issued a communique expressing their "profound concern" over conditions in the oil market, which, they said, created "an extremely unstable situation...
...revenues this year, comes at a tense moment. Earlier in the week in Mexico City, tens of thousands of workers and students marched through the center of a capital still marred by last September's disastrous earthquake to protest the belt-tightening economic policies of the De la Madrid government. The demonstrators demanded a moratorium on payments of the foreign debt...
...program boasts such famous alumni as San Antonio Mayor Henry G. Cisneros, President of Mexico Miguel de la Madrid, and former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Over the years one fourth of the cabinet ministers of Singapore have made the trek to Cambridge, Miller claims...
...event suggested that there might be truth to a rumor making the rounds of Madrid's Cuban-exile community that Sanchez was also a spy who may have been ready to spill secrets to the West. After expressing its "repulsion" at the botched kidnaping, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez expelled the four Cubans. Sanchez, meanwhile, was hustled off to an undisclosed location and placed under armed guard...