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Stunned, the regime dispatched extra police to the Basque provinces, where tensions were already at the flash point. In protest, 150,000 workers walked off their jobs. Schools shut down, stores closed, and young Basques battled with police in dozens of towns. In Madrid, Franco interrupted his 78th birthday celebration to call an emergency session of his Cabinet and declare a state of emergency in Guipuzcoa, the "most Basque" of Spain's four Basque provinces...
...Agustin Lara, 70, Mexico's foremost composer and lyricist; of heart and lung disease; in Mexico City. Because he could not write music, someone would stand by the piano as he played and jot down the scores of his tunes, including You Belong to My Heart, Granada and Madrid...
...Rather, they are Guston's authentic response to a personal sense of crisis. The trouble is that painting has become a clumsy way of reporting a society as turbulent and racked as this. Its clashes cannot be accounted for in single, painted images-as Goya could report the Madrid insurrection in Third of May, or Delacroix symbolize the 1830 revolution with Liberty Leading the People over the barricades of a Paris street. The task has been assumed, and done better, by film makers. In three minutes of film, the flat dispassionate eye of the movie camera can disclose more...
...each. Last July, former President Pedro Aramburu was killed by a Peronist group calling itself the Monteneros (for "hired guns"). The generals are now talking about outflanking the "Peronists," many of whom are downright bandits, by inviting old Dictator Juan Perón himself to return from Madrid after 15 years in exile...
...Brave Bull. Domingo, who was born in Madrid in 1941, once hoped to become a matador when he grew up. By the time he fought his first bull, though, he was 14 and living with his parents in Mexico City. It was in a small ring where young bulls were tested for bravery. The one selected for Placido was very brave-braver, in fact, than Placido, who was badly battered; then and there he gave up the corrida for a career in music...