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Perhaps Durazo thought no one would notice. Shortly after he was booted out of office in November 1982 by incoming President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, he made a declaration of goods, claiming to be worth $600,000. Alas, appraisers say the construction of a single security wall around one of his vast compounds would cost $250,000. An estimate of the civil servant's net worth: $12.5 million...
...leave the country to find home, and he had to be careful to give no sign at all of his travel plans. Passing through Madrid on a band tour in the spring of 1980, Sax Player Paquito D'Rivera, Cuban born and Cuban bred, was at the airport, bag packed as usual for another gig. Inside his luggage, however, was a carefully weighted assortment of stones, an army boot and a piece of a baseball bat. By the time the bag was stashed on the plane, D'Rivera was on his way into Madrid, planning his route...
...Gromyko this week in Stockholm. Both men will be traveling to the Swedish capital to attend the opening ceremonies of the Conference on Confidence and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. It will be the first time Shultz and Gromyko have met since they exchanged angry words in Madrid last September over the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. Their discussions, along with Reagan's speech, will be closely monitored by U.S. allies in Western Europe, where the rise in superpower tensions has been felt most keenly...
With the Geneva talks ruptured, the Stockholm conference has become the focus of hopes for some movement out of the superpower impasse. Under the terms of the final document of the Madrid Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Stockholm gathering is not even supposed to discuss nuclear arms control. Instead, the estimated 350 delegates from Europe, the U.S. and Canada will discuss ways of reducing the risk of a conventional war in Europe...
...grisly weekend elsewhere in Europe too. Alcala 20, a popular Madrid discothèque, was still crowded with some 500 revelers spending their Christmas bonuses early Saturday morning when the plastic curtains above the stage caught fire. Within minutes a fireball engulfed the basement dance hall, trapping many people in the cloakroom. Others suffocated or were crushed to death as they stampeded up the stairs through thick clouds of smoke toward exits that had been blocked to prevent more people from entering. The police could not immediately determine how the blaze had started. At least 78 people were killed...