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...Nicaragua, Sister Rachel Pinal, 48, walks for hours through the precipitous mountains of Nueva Segovia to help the impoverished campesinos. She spends her nights sleeping alongside mangy dogs, chickens and pigs on the hard-packed clay floors of the shacks of peasants who take her in. Despite such hardships, says Sister Rachel, "we get involved in so many wonderful things that sometimes I cry myself to sleep from...
...your article on Spain [March 24], you say that the neofascist movement Fuerza Nueva received 350,000 votes, or "a mere .02%," in the national election last year. If true, it would mean that the Spanish electorate consisted of 1.75 billion people, or substantially more people than in the People's Republic of China. Are there really that many Spaniards...
...ominous symptom of malaise is the growing visibility of a neofascist movement called the Fuerza Nueva (New Force). The party, led by a wealthy Madrid lawyer named Bias Piñar, 62, attracts alienated youth from some of Madrid's best families, who mix with a cadre of thugs and shadowy political operatives adept at exploiting a residual streak of nostalgia for the Franco era. Fuerza Nueva captured 350,000 votes-a mere .02%-in last year's national election. But the ultrarightists attract disproportionate attention with fiery street rallies and attacks, with iron bars and bicycle chains...
That this fragile shoot requires watchful nurturing was dramatized last week when 150,000 shouting Spaniards flooded Madrid's Plaza de Oriente to pay tribute to the late dictator Franco on the third anniversary of his death. Blue-shirted members of the Fuerza Nueva (New Force), an extreme right-wing group, marched to the site in military formation and mingled with grizzled Civil War veterans and youths with Nazi swastika armbands. Others who crowded into the square were simply ordinary conservatives, nostalgic for days long gone when life seemed more disciplined and predictable...
...best tests of golf in Spain are Nueva Andalucia near Marbella and Sotogrande in Cadiz. Both were designed by Robert Trent Jones along the Costa del Sol. Angel migual is the pro at Nueva Andalucia, which played host to the World Cup in 1973 when Nicklaus and Johnny Miller won. Vik shot a 70 the first time he played this course just next to a bullring and the Sierra Blanca mountains...