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...Carmelite rule calls for a strict regimen based on silence and prayer. However, an experimental charter approved by the Vatican in 1977 allowed more leeway for the 13,000 nuns, who live in 826 convents across 72 nations, with the largest group in Spain. Though four-fifths of these nuns favor the moderate reforms, a strict traditionalist faction has been lobbying against them...
Founder St. Teresa also aroused intense controversy in 16th century Spain when she organized a branch of Carmelites to return to the severe solitude and renunciation practiced by the early Christian hermits. For centuries thereafter, the order was among the strictest in the church. Nuns meditated and prayed on behalf of others and speech was restricted. Members lived entirely behind high walls and spoke to outsiders only through metal grates or other barriers...
Bilbao Sondica Airport in Spain's northern Basque country has a notorious history of foggy weather and low cloud cover. But last Tuesday morning, the skies were clear as Iberia Airlines Flight 610 from Madrid began its landing approach. A few moments later, only 19 miles from the airport, the plane struck the tip of a 177-ft.-high television antenna on Mount Oiz (elevation 3,366 ft.), burst into flames and crashed into a wooded hillside. All 148 people aboard were killed. Three Americans were among the passengers, as was Bolivia's Minister of Labor, Gonzalo Guzman...
...crash was the third major air disaster in Spain in less than 15 months and brought the total death toll to 422. Said Manuel Lopez de Pedro, president of the Spanish airline pilots' association: "Something must be very wrong with Spanish aviation when there are so many accidents." While the exact cause of last week's crash is still under investigation, it appears that Pilot Jose Luis Patino was flying three miles off course and 1,000 ft. too low when the plane hit the TV mast. Neither the antenna nor Mount Oiz was on the plane's official approach...
Such pictures, according to electronics experts, could divulge the frequencies used for top-secret communications. The episode, which may hurt Gonzalez's efforts to keep Spain in NATO, marked the first formal expulsion of American officials from Madrid since his country and the U.S. became allies...