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...Rabin and Peres have emphasized in the past few months, peace is never made with friends, only with enemies. Israel can't choose its negotiating partners--the ineffectiveness of the non-PLO Palestinian delegation to Madrid proved this point. For a negotiating partner with authority and legitimacy in the territories, Israel was forced to turn to Yassir Arafat...
...time the first tourist hits the sand at Sunny Isles, Peruvian TV producer Jose Crousillat has been working the phones for hours, checking on his offices in Milan and Madrid. By afternoon he is in the Capitalvision studios videotaping Guadalupe, his latest Spanish-language telenovela, seen around the globe...
Prodded by private steelmakers feeling squeezed by such unfair competition, the European Commission this year vowed no new subsidies without permanent production cutbacks. Spain won Commission permission to spend $3.3 billion to pay for consolidation and layoffs connected with a 2.3 million-ton-capacity cut at Ansio, provided that Madrid found private financing for a new 1 million-ton mill in the Basque town of Sestao, which the government had earlier planned to build itself. Just before last week's meeting, Commission officials approved a plan to sell Eisenhuttenstadt to Italian steelmaker Riva and save existing jobs, if Bonn scaled...
...Madrid the minority Socialist government has presented a tough austerity budget calling for below-inflation wage increases for the next three years in the public sector. The British welfare system -- with costs rising 3% annually -- must be reformed to target the "truly needy," according to Britain's Tory government. Under scrutiny is $13 a week paid to all mothers for each child under 16, regardless of wealth. The government has already modified an income- support program that in one notorious case gave an unemployed insurance executive $2,750 a week for mortgage payments on a $1.5 million mansion...
TOLEDO. In this medieval city in central Spain 67 km south of Madrid, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, or El Greco (1541-1614), spent his later years creating a prodigious number of paintings. Nineteen of his highly expressionist works, including the dramatic landscape View of Toledo, are again on display at the recently renovated El Greco Museum. Temporarily closed for restoration is the adjoining Casa del Greco, which contains period furniture, paintings and personal belongings...