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...France seems increasingly lonely. Though it claims support from Italy, Spain and Belgium, its isolation deepened when the E.C.'s point man in the agriculture negotiations, commissioner Ray MacSharry of Ireland, resigned, blaming E.C. Commission President Jacques Delors for excessive sympathy for his fellow French. The chief farm negotiator eventually resumed his duties, but only after apparently winning support to conduct the talks without interference...
...resigned after accusing Delors of undermining his efforts. British Prime Minister John Major insisted on a deal, and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl called the prospect of a trade war "politics of idiocy." Mitterrand conceded that the isolation of France would be "very dangerous." But France has support from Italy, Spain and Belgium. A compromise is foreseeable, but not readily. (See related story on page...
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a friend and patron of John Singer Sargent. She went to Spain in 1888, and it fascinated her--she said of the country: "Here one feels existence." She soon began collecting the artwork that now adorns the Spanish Cloister of the Museum. Her cousin gave her "El Jaleo," the focal point of this area. Later, Sargent presented his patron with the sketches for this painting...
...BEEN CALLED BOTH A dictatorial "monster" and a modern-day Jose Marti, | determined to vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...
...maritime training center at Sagres, on his country's Atlantic coast. Inspired by Henry's seafaring passion, such explorers as Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco Da Gama sailed down the coast of Africa and eventually to India. From the rival ports of Palos and Cadiz, under the flag of Spain, Christopher Columbus set out westward on his seminal voyage of discovery, eventually journeying four times to what he never believed was a New World. His discovery of America, Van Doren notes, "is probably the single greatest addition to human knowledge ever made...