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News of the party's legalization was so unexpected that Radio Nacional's announcer actually sputtered the words of the communiqué. Within hours, caravans of honking cars, draped with red flags, snaked through the streets of Madrid. Jubilant leftists sang militant choruses of the long-banned Internationale, and a huge PARTIDO COMUNISTA DE ESPAÑA sign was posted outside party headquarters. Suarez's action was generally applauded by Spain's left and center politicians, who regarded the lifting of the ban as a litmus of the regime's commitment to democracy...
Predictable Shock. But King Juan Carlos and his Premier had their own reasons for favoring legalization of the party. For one thing, many Western European nations have hinted that an election without Communist participation would be regarded as a farce; Madrid desperately wants closer economic and political ties with the European Community. For another thing, if the Communists were not legalized they would have attempted mass demonstrations and fomented labor unrest during the campaign. Widespread pre-election chaos could have discredited Suarez's reform program and encouraged the ultrarightists, who oppose Juan Carlos' determination to guide his country...
...they had to storm the fortresses" for many of their weapons, Nelson says. He adds that the bravery "was the kind you can only visualize in the Hollywood movies." Hitler sent German tank and aircraft divisions which technologically outdistanced the republican forces, enabling the fascists to bomb Guernica, Madrid and other large population centers in republican control...
Under these conditions, the Lincoln Brigade fought with the other groups in the international column--the Garibaldi Brigade from Italy, the Mazaryk Brigade from Czeckoslovakia--around Madrid at Jarama and Brunette, at Belchitte, Quinto, Catalonia and at the Aragon Front...
Puerta Hierro is the permanent venue for the Madrid Open, which is a regular event on the British PGA tour. In 1974, Vik qualified for the Madrid Open and played in a field that included Tony Jackson and Peter Oosterhuis before missing the 36-hold cut by a stroke. Puerta Hierro also hosted the World Amateur Team Championship in 1970, in which Vik played this fall...