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Skip the Ritz. Bypass London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Athens. Head for the byways. Seek out country inns, auberges, Gasthăuser, bedsitters, farms, pensions, pousadas and paradores. This is the year of the offbeat, off-beaten-track European vacation...
...killers are responsible for most, but not all, of Spain's current wave of terrorism. Last week, for example, Supreme Court Justice Miguel Cruz Cuenca was killed by gunfire on a busy downtown Madrid street. His murder, according to police was the work not of ETA but of another group of Marxist terrorists, GRAPO (for Oct 1 Anti-Fascist Resistance Groups), which the authorities had thought was in decline. But ETA was responsible for the assassination two weeks ago of General Constantino Ortin Gil, 63, Madrid's military governor, and the shooting of a policeman who died last...
...probably not powerful enough to set off a widespread revolt on their own, but they can cause considerable unrest, particularly in army and among right-wing groups. At the funeral of General Ortin two weeks ago, a throng of restive officers grabbed the casket and carried it through downtown Madrid. The spectacle greatly embarrassed their commander in chief, King Juan Carlos, 41, who later told a group of generals, "An army that has lost discipline cannot be saved...
...would still be listening to them now," said the organizer of a musical fête to honor Andrés Segovia, the world's most celebrated classical guitarist. The great man himself rose from the audience during intermission to accept a gold medal from the mayor of Madrid. "I have always had a great affection for this city," he joked. "But I love it even more so now." After the 3½-hour concert, the Andalusian-born Segovia, 85, signed autographs with the help of his son Carlos Andrés, 8. Then, accompanied by his third wife...
...appointed envoy to Costa Rica in 1953 at age 36. He was sent to El Salvador the following year and to Mexico City from 1957 to 1961. Returning to private business, he also served on the Republican National Committee's foreign policy task force, and was sent to Madrid when President Nixon took office. Hill was assigned to Argentina in 1974 and retired last year after surviving unhurt a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires...