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...celebration, the classical guitarist played before a sellout audience of 3,200 at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium. "This guitar refuses to stay in tune," he complained, and later he apologized: "Tonight my guitar was not my sweetheart. It was my enemy." Segovia, 84, lives in Madrid where he is working on his four-volume autobiography. which he likes to think of as four movements of a sonata...
...architect during the Franco years, but Jose Maria Perez never felt that he had found the right blueprint for life. "I was in an interior exile," he grumbles. But when Spain moved into a more liberal era, Perez, under the pseudonym "Peridis," finally found his true calling: cartoonist. In Madrid's daily newspaper El Pais he regularly lampoons the pillars of the once untouchable Establishment-from King Carlos to Pope Paul. Some of Peridis' subjects-including both Premier Adolfo Suarez and Communist Party Chief Santiago Carillo-have even written prefaces to the cartoonist's new book, Peridis...
...60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, he got a much publicized snub from the Kremlin leaders, who decided-after looking at his prepared text-that they could not fit him into the speaking schedule. This only burnished his sought-after image of independence. Said one diplomat in Madrid: "The Russians were booby-trapped. Carrillo came out looking like a stalwart democrat...
...playing just that Marxist maverick role, however, Carrillo has won much attention. Cambio 16, a respected Madrid weekly, has described him as "one of the most Machiavellian, intelligent and chameleon-like politicians on the world scene." That is somewhat grand, considering the small size of Carrillo's party (claimed membership: 100,000) and the preference of most Spaniards for middle-road politics. Now Carrillo is trying to draw the more popular Socialists into a consensus on how to further democratize Spain, in order to blur their image as the dominant party on the left...
...Germany, it seemed, was undergoing a security check. The government even sent its own security guards to 13 foreign airports that it regards as sloppily run -starting with Palma, Majorca, where the four hijackers had boarded the Lufthansa flight two weeks earlier. Bonn told Madrid flatly that unless the Germans were allowed to handle their own security, they would cancel all flights between Majorca and West Germany. Anxious to avoid such a blow to its tourist industry, the Spanish government reluctantly agreed...