Word: madrid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hardly ignore the startling collection of political bedfellows and adversaries that formed against them last week. Longshoremen in Marseille and Genoa refused to handle either Spanish or Soviet cargo ships. Italy's Communist Party blasted the Soviets for sullying the image of socialism. Italian right-wingers, meanwhile, accused Madrid of doing the same to conservatism. In Lisbon, the Spanish ambassador got a dressing down from a delegation of 40 Portuguese journalists -none of whom have ever been particularly vocal about murders of political dissidents in their own country...
STANDING stiffly behind his desk in Madrid's Pardo Palace, Dictator Francisco Franco last week delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address with all the emotion of a wooden soldier. For 20 minutes, the Caudillo, 78, methodically pumped his right hand up and down for emphasis as he spoke in his lisping, high-pitched voice of trade-union reforms, of Spain's Common Market hopes, of Richard Nixon's visit in October. But of the political crisis that continued to send seismic waves throughout the country Franco said practically nothing. There was an odd, stilted sentence...
Firing Squad. Spain's "disagreeable tension," as one Madrid newspaper rather euphemistically described it, reached the snapping point early last week. After the West German consul in San Sebastian was freed by the Basque terrorist group that had kidnaped and held him hostage for three weeks, speculation increased that the 16 would be treated with moderation. But when, after 21 excruciating days of deliberation, a verdict was finally produced by the five-man military tribunal and approved by the local military governor, some of the sentences were even harsher than those demanded by the prosecution. One defendant was acquitted...
Abroad, outrage was the reaction. Messages urging clemency poured into Madrid from all over Europe. In France, three Spanish bank branches were ransacked, stoned or burned...
...society where all people, whatever their race or religion, live in perfect contentment. Also, the Soviet leaders probably did not wish to appear more barbarous than Franco; the commutation of the two death sentences in Moscow came less than 24 hours after Franco's decision in Madrid to reverse the death sentences of the six Basque nationalists...