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...local replies, "There aren't any potatoes either." Gonzalez responded with the one about Karl Marx returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit to Madrid's School of Dramatic Arts and Dance, she was persuaded to join some young pupils in the flamenco. Said one dance instructor: "Her rhythm was good, but she should take time to learn to use her arms...
...more serious anti-American display occurred Sunday in Madrid, where Reagan was scheduled to begin a two-day state visit on Monday as the guest of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia. Some 500,000 protesters marched through the downtown area, burning American flags and calling Reagan a "murderer" and a "fascist...
When Reagan arrives in Madrid on May 6, he will probably be greeted by a host of anti-American demonstrators ranging from Trotskyite Communists to Spain's version of the German Greens. Because of security concerns, the President will confine his visit to the west side of Madrid, where the royal palace and Prime Minister's residence are located. On May 7, he will take a constitutional around the garden of El Pardo palace with King Juan Carlos and hold talks with Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. The leaders may discuss Gonzalez's campaign to get Spain into NATO...
...Descanso Barbeque restaurant, a popular eating place outside Madrid and only five miles from the U.S. air base at Torrejon, was packed with about 300 people last Friday night. Suddenly, an explosion tore through the building. At least 18 people died and 82 were injured. The blast may have been a terrorist attack aimed at U.S. military personnel who regularly eat at the restaurant. No Americans were killed, but eleven were injured. Two newspapers later received telephone calls claiming that ETA, the Basque separatist group, was responsible. Calls to Madrid radio stations claimed that an urban terrorist group called GRAPO...
...Madrid police were not discounting the possibility that the blast was the work of a group opposed to U.S. or North Atlantic Treaty Organization policies. Such groups have threatened to stage a demonstration to urge the Spanish government to cancel President Reagan's planned visit to Spain next month...