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...Miro. As a result of Bozo's freedom to make his own selections, the museum admirably represents almost all major phases of a protean career. Yet there are a few gaps. Picasso was a Spaniard, and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona has most of his very early works. Madrid has the Guernica, which found refuge in the Museum of Modern Art during Francisco Franco's 40 years in power; London has the Three Dancers; and MOMA still has Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Paris' new museum has several fascinating studies, however, for Les Demoiselles, the painting that initiated cubism...
...recent disappearance remains unresolved. Vladimir Alexandrov, a prominent Soviet physicist, vanished without a trace while visiting Madrid late last March. Alexandrov originated the mathematical model for the nuclear winter theory, which holds that the smoke and dust hurled into the atmosphere by a full-scale nuclear war between the superpowers would block the sun's rays for weeks, causing the earth's temperature to plummet. The mystery of his disappearance has been compounded by the suspicions of some Western scientists that the nuclear winter scenario was promoted by Moscow to give antinuclear groups in the U.S. and Europe some fresh...
Even as emergency aid poured into the Mexican capital from the U.S. and elsewhere, the cries for help beneath the rubble grew weaker and the death toll continued to mount. So did complaints among Mexicans and some foreign relief workers that the government of President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado had handled the crisis less than adequately...
Another kind of help came from Nancy Reagan, who arrived in Mexico City with a U.S. Treasury check for $1 million as a down payment on further American relief efforts. During a four-hour, 15-minute visit to the capital, she spent 20 minutes with President de la Madrid at his official Los Pinos residence. Later Mrs. Reagan drove to the residential complex of Tlatelolco, where a 13- story apartment building had collapsed. She commiserated with Spanish Tenor Placido Domingo, who had come to Mexico City to discover the whereabouts of relatives believed to be buried in the ruins...
...Mexican effort. Said a member of a French rescue unit known as Les Taupes (The Moles): "It got to the point where we were practically pleading with the Mexican government to let us save someone." Many Mexicans were equally critical. They wondered, for example, why President de la Madrid had waited 39 hours after the earthquake before addressing the nation on television. The government, said Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, a Mexican foreign policy expert, "refused to recognize the dimensions of the tragedy the first day, so many lives were lost. They went around in circles...