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...people of Galicia are so guarded, other Spaniards joke, that if you catch one of them on a staircase, you'll never discover whether he or she had been going up or down. But Ramon Sampedro, of the Galician fishing village of Xuno, 620 km northwest of Madrid, could not be more open about his intentions: he wants to die--so much so that he has asked the European Commission on Human Rights in Strasbourg to declare it his entitlement...
Apart from the ability to shake his head and an occasional involuntary flailing of his arms, the 52-year-old Sampedro is a prisoner within a paralyzed body. Propped up in bed in the farmhouse where he lives with his brother, sister-in-law and his aged father, he can see from his window the coast at Xuno and the restless Atlantic beyond. It was at this beach 26 years ago that Sampedro, a mechanic, dived into a rock pool and struck his head on the bottom...
...There is a test I apply to people who say I must go on living,'' says Sampedro. ``I ask, `Swap places with me. Would you want to?' They admit they wouldn't.'' With a beautiful smile and a sense of humor tuned by long hours of reading--his shelves hold translations of Swift, Wilde, Flaubert--Sampedro says if he cannot have his life ended in predominantly Roman Catholic Spain, one option is to be taken to the Netherlands...
...ACOUSTIC FIRST SET ends with "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)"--the unaccompanied version of his enigmatic tribute to rock and roll. As he did on Rust Never Sleeps, Young repeats the song later with the enthusiastic aid of Crazy Horsemen Frank Sampedro (rhythm guitar), Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums...
Divorced. Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Count of Covadonga, 30, heir to the non-existent Spanish throne; by his estranged Countess, the former Cuban commoner Edelmira Sampedro; in Havana. Grounds: "Abandonment of domicile." She was awarded $100-a-month alimony, the right to all gifts he gave her%#151principally $3,000 worth of jewelry. The Count cheered lustily, shouted "I'm free again," embraced Fiancee Marta Rocafort...