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...finish his studies from prison (he was jailed numerous times during that period for being a Communist). In 1935 he went to Moscow for the annual Communist International Youth Congress, where he impressed the party with his eloquent oratory. The following year he was sent to Madrid on a special mission during the first months of the Spanish Civil War. When he tried to slip back to Portugal, he was arrested and tortured. Out of prison after a year, he began his vida clandestina (life in hiding) that did not end until after the April revolution 38 years later...
...Spaniard visiting Moscow stops at the Kremlin wall, where his Russian host takes him to view Lenin's remains. "We have one like that," shrugs the Spaniard. "But he sits up and talks." That Madrid joke about ailing Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 82, would be merely crude were it not for the fact that it reflects a deep-rooted bitterness. After 35 years of living under a dictatorial regime notable mostly for its rigid stability, many Spaniards these days are worried about both the erratic course of the Franco regime and el Caudillo 's ability to run the country...
...middle of the struggle is Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, 66, a former mayor of Madrid and Interior Minister. He became No. 2 man in the government just over a year ago after Basque separatists assassinated Admiral
Sarah Miles is clearly starring in a movie all her own that could be called Young, Bad and Dangerous. Arriving in Madrid recently to start filming Pepita Jiménez, she quickly alienated the nation. She announced that not only had she never read this famous and popular Andalusian novel about a beautiful widow who entices a young seminarian to the wrong side of the altar; but, she said, she had no intention of doing so now. Then she banned the Spanish language from the set: a clause in her contract stipulated that everyone connected with her in the movie...
Born. To Geraldine Chaplin, 30, Sir Charles Chaplin's cinemactress daughter (Doctor Zhivago, The Three Musketeers), and her lover of eight years, Spanish Film Director Carlos Saura, 43: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Shane...