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...Madrid)-Intense and precise, it has set the tone of all Spanish journalistic writing. Its emphasis on literature, music and philosophy gives it an aura of intellectualism. It has suffered from stringent press laws, but has offset its inability to have pungent political articles by improving its nonpolitical pieces and pictures. It exercises considerable courage and skill in making its voice heard, sometimes with sly critical undertones...
Died. Colonel Segismundo Casado, 75, Spanish Loyalist officer who in the closing days of the Civil War seized Madrid and surrendered the city to Franco in hopes of ending the bloodshed; of a heart attack; in Madrid. One of the few professional officers to march under the Loyalist banner, Casado was nevertheless distrustful of the Communists in Loyalist forces; in 1939, when the Reds vowed to defend Madrid to the death, he turned on his former allies and imprisoned their leaders, thus effectively ending the battle...
...another footnote to Jewish his tory, the Spanish government last week issued a decree under which Madrid's Jewish community was officially registered under Spain's religious-liberty law. Passed two years ago, it allowed the public practice of non-Catholic religions. To all intents and purposes, Jews have enjoyed tolerance in Spain under the constitution of 1869, which proclaimed limited religious freedom, and under the 1966 law. All the same, last week's decree marked the first time since Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, during the Inquisition, that they had been officially and formally...
...campaigned from Madrid, where he has lived since last August after completing his six-year jail term for stealing government funds. In absentia, he won a Senate seat, a position that will allow him to return home with im munity from civil suits. Eleven of his followers, moreover, have been elected Deputies to Venezuela's lower house so far. Some voters said they voted for Perez Jimenez because in the old dictatorial days, Perez Jimenez' police goons belted the bandits before they had a chance to rob anybody. Under the new democratic regimes, there seems to be more...
...Nomads. This caucus procedure has been followed by other factions for years. But whereas other groups met quietly in Madrid, the new Deputies decided to hop from one city to another, their independence encouraged by the fact that many are from the provinces and have their own local bases of power away from Madrid. Before long, the statements they usually issue after each session were taking strong exception to such unpopular Cortes measures as the "regressive" Official Secrets Law and the 1968-69 national budget, and a delighted press could hardly wait to headline the latest blast from los trashumantes...