Word: espana
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...minutes of one another, spreading death and destruction across an array of targets: a Spanish social club, a hotel, a Jewish community center and cemetery, a restaurant next to Belgium's consulate. Nearly half of the 41 who lost their lives had been at the club, Casa d'Espana, where two suicide bombers muscled in after slitting the throat of a guard. Within a day, Moroccan authorities had rounded up a number of Islamic militants and had in custody one man who had been detained before his bomb exploded. More attacks seemed likely, and both the State Department...
...promoted itself as the eye of a creative tornado known as la movida, whirling all night long. Novelist Camilo Jose Cela won the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature. "In the 1960s, we felt like second-class Europeans," says Juan Sanchez-Cuenca, director of the U.S.-affiliated advertising firm Bozell Espana. "In the 1980s we felt proud to be Spanish...
...past decade. Auto analysts say the Japanese market share on the Continent is likely to rise from its current 11% level to 25% by 1994. "The battleground here will be every bit as bloody as in the U.S. in 1981-82," says Angel Perversi, managing director of General Motors Espana. "The Japanese are going to add excess capacity. The only question is who is going to lose...
...scene was a bizarre blend of whimsy, fashion and rage. As antigovernment protesters gathered on the Via Espana in downtown Panama City last week, some of the women sported designer sunglasses and diamond-stud earrings to go with their smart dresses and slacks. Clapping in rhythm, the middle-class crowd jeered, "Down with Noriega! Get out, and let us eat!" When passing motorists blared their horns in approval, riot police poured from trucks bearing the painted image of Doberman attack dogs. Then from the side of the road rolled a truck hauling two water cannons inexplicably emblazoned with powder-blue...
...flowed into Spain during the first ten months of 1986, an increase of 115% over the same period in 1985. Two attractions: Spain's low labor costs, which run 15% less than the European average, and the country's large population of consumers (39 million). Says Courtenay Worthington, Citibank Espana's general manager: "Spain is becoming a magnet for foreign investment. Many companies are putting up money, and those that aren't are wondering if they should...