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| | TIME.com: La Pasionaria: An Exile Ends -- May 23, 1977 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years. |
 | | Even as news agencies in Moscow were reporting her departure, the state-run Spanish wire services were claiming that she would remain in the Soviet Union until this week. |
 | | The secrecy and subterfuge were part of a deal between the Spanish Communists and the government, which, in return for issuing Ibarruri her passport, insisted on discretion to avoid violent reactions from Spanish rightists. |
| www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,911972,00.html (759 words) |
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