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...memories were sometimes hard to still. In Paracuellos de Jarama, a small pueblo on the outskirts of Madrid that gained infamy during the civil war when Republican forces shot hundreds of Nationalist prisoners there, the local voting monitor politely ushered a trooper of the still feared Civil Guard out of the schoolroom polling station. "He has a gun, and he does not belong here," said one of the party observers behind...
...campaign continued, skepticism declined. "Suddenly you got the feeling, particularly toward the end, of political life," said a journalist in Madrid. "The result was that even if some were bewildered, many more were interested. So much was crammed down so quickly. Everyone remembered how it was [before Franco died], and there you had the Communist flag in living color on television, and there was politics in the streets. It was like one of those old comic movies running at too fast a speed...
...country where it had been outlawed for 38 years. With caveats, they accepted the monarchy and its flag?to the point where wags dubbed them el Real Partido Comunista (the Royal Communist Party). The party's freewheeling rallies, including a giant, rain-soaked election-eve bash outside Madrid for more than 200,000 supporters, dazzled much of Spain. By contrast, Fraga's stodgy Alliance held many of its meetings by invitation only...
Suáve, shrewd and cool under pressure, the movie-star handsome Premier lives with his attractive brunette wife Amparo and their five children in Moncloa Palace, the elegant official residence outside Madrid. A crack tennis player in his now rare leisure time, he regularly puts in 16-hour days, conferring frequently with Juan Carlos in a working relationship that insiders describe as one of "closest harmony...
Since Franco's death, Madrid has sprouted two combative new dailies, El Pais and Diario 16, and a host of snappy magazines like Interviu and Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...