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Taking off from Geneva at midnight (and so rapidly that the F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...
...West Germany, which has absorbed 541,000 foreign arrivals (not including 13 million refugees from East Europe) and still has vacancies for 553,000 more workers. About half the recruits make the trip on their own; the rest are signed up by official German labor commissions in Athens, Madrid, Naples and Verona. The commissions administer health examinations, sign contracts stipulating wages, fringe benefits (up to 44% of the hourly cash wage), housing. Then the migrants are put aboard trains for their new jobs. Last week in Cologne's massive Bahnhof arrived 1,000 Spaniards, 300 Italians, 180 Greeks...
...Madrid, where he lives in luxurious exile with his two poodles and 27-year-old Isabel, whom he introduces as his third wife, Juan Per&243;n greeted the events with satisfaction but also with an oddly detached manner. Anti-U.S. as always, the 66-year-old ex-dictator accused the U.S. of "siphoning off" Latin America's wealth. He bragged that his followers could have polled 6,000,000 votes in the election. But he remained politely ambiguous about any plans for a return to Argentina. "I have done nothing," he said. "Our people have done everything...
...Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control of much of Spain's banking...
...concert in Madrid, the lights went out during a performance of Stravinsky's The Firebird; the orchestra played on in the dark from memory. When a flight to Luxembourg was canceled, the orchestra arrived by bus 15 minutes before concert time and with no luggage. The musicians played in sweaters and slacks. In Seville, the orchestra arrived during a flood (the concert became a benefit for flood victims), and in Aleppo, Syria, a bomb exploded outside the hall during the concert. Inside, the orchestra played calmly through a new orchestral version of the Syrian national anthem, hastily drafted...