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Felipe! Felipe!" came the joyous chants from 10,000 supporters who had gathered at the soccer stadium in the industrial city of Valladolid for the campaign rally. As the candidate with the flashing smile and thick black hair took the stage, the crowd clapped and cheered its approval. "After 150 years of govern-ment by the right, we must try to put this country on the march," he declared, stabbing the air in a gesture of challenge. "And that can only be done by the Socialist Party...
Most journalists and soccer pundits, perhaps preoccupied with tiny oil-rich Kuwait's wealth, had ignored its quiet progress in soccer. Coached by the well-regarded Brazilian Carlos Alberto Parreira, the players were briefly sequestered in the Sahara-like climate of Valladolid in north-central Spain but worked out twice daily (and prayed to Allah the requisite five times daily). They broke the monotony by appearing for carefully rehearsed "photo opportunities," dancing around their camel mascot, which sports a FIFA identity card and a team jacket...
...draped mountains along the El Salvador-Honduras border, U.S.-supplied "Huey" transport helicopters banked low over steep, forested gorges, then deposited heavily armed troops at key locations on the forbidding terrain. According to eyewitnesses, the elite Atlacatl Brigade, some 800 to 1,000 strong, landed near the village of Valladolid, Honduras, violating Honduran airspace and territory as local soldiers looked on impassively. The invaders' mission: to engage leftist Salvadoran guerrilla forces entrenched in pockets along the demilitarized border zone established after El Salvador's four-day war in 1969 with Honduras...
...chance to guide Spain's economic policies. Private industries were offered a five-year tax holiday, duty-free equipment imports, easy credit terms and attractive plant sites as incentives to set up shop in Spain's capital-starved provinces. Some 70 companies moved into the city of Valladolid within four years, bringing $75 million in investments and 8,200 new jobs. Similar boom towns sprang up throughout Spain. Tourism flourished beyond the technocrats' wildest imaginings when Spam's stern moral codes were relaxed to permit bikinis on beaches where 15 years before men had been arrested...
...democratic evolution" should come sooner rather than later, they have managed to get an airing for their views by the novel tactic of putting on a kind of legislative road show all over Spain. Last week, in their boldest challenge to authority yet, a dozen of them gathered in Valladolid and vowed to keep right on meeting in defiance of a ban recently imposed by Cortes President Antonio Iturmendi Bañales...