Etiqueta: madrid

  • Kuko el chimpancé barcelonés asusta a la nietísima

    Doña Carmen Polo de Franco en la Exposición del traje español

    Esta tarde estuvo nuevamente en la Feria Internacional del Campo la esposa de S. E. el Jefe del Estado. Las primeras visitas de la Feria, y entre ellas la del «stand» donde se exhibe el chimpancé «Kuko», las hizo acompañada de su nieta Carmencita. Las caricias del chimpancé no agradaron demasiado a la nieta del Caudillo, que demostró su disgusto a «Kuko». El público que se agolpó en los alrededores aplaudió la presencia de doña Carmen Polo de Franco y mostró su simpatía a la pequeña visitante.

  • Inauguración del Talgo entre Madrid y Barcelona (9h)

    Barcelona 4. El servicio de Talgo entre Barcelona y Madrid comenzará a funcionar a partir del día 15. De la capital de España saldrá un tren los martes, jueves y sábados, y de Barcelona, los lunes, miércoles y viernes. El trayecto será cubierto en ocho horas y cincuenta y cinco minutos, y el precio del billete será de 830 pesetas, clase única. – Cifra

  • Inauguración del puente aéreo Madrid-Barcelona

    Contará con veinte vuelos diarios a intervalos de una hora.

  • Reacción barcelonesa a la Matanza de Atocha

    Protest Killing
    Workers On Strike in Madrid, Barcelona
    MADRID Spain (AP) – More than 65,000 workers went on strike in Madrid and Barcelona today to protest the machine gun killing of four leftists by gunmen believed to be rightist extremists.

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    Some 30,000 workers at the Barcelona SEAT plant, Spain’s largest automaker, also went on strike to protest the attack on the lawyer’s office.

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    The raid capped a day of violence in Madrid during which leftists [GRAPO] kidnaped a three-star general [Emilio Villaescusa] and a young woman [Maria Luz Najera] was killed in a clash between police and demonstrating students.

  • Reacción al asesinato por ETA de Miguel Ángel Blanco

    Millions protest Basque killing

    Spaniards honor slain councilman

    Madrid (AP) – More than 2 million Spaniards marched in Madrid and Barcelona … to protest the killing of a young politician by Basque separatists, hours after his hometown paid an emotional tribute at his burial.
    Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar led a mass of people stretching nearly two miles to Madrid’s Puerta del Sol square, where the regional government building was draped in a three-story-high black ribbon.

    The protest, in which Mr. Aznar was accompanied by all three former prime ministers of Spain’s 20-year-old democracy, was believed to be the largest since Spaniards marched to protest a military coup try in 1981.
    Madrid police said more than 1.5 million people joined the march. Another 1 million marched in Barcelona, police there reported.

    Many waved photographs of Miguel Angel Blanco, a 29-year-old councilman from the Basque town of Ermua kidnapped by the Basque separatist group ETA on Thursday and shot and fatally wounded two days later.