European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine dramatic social changes the new Spain by Edward Schumacher new York times there is still the blood of the sultry swishing skirts of the shuffle of old women in Black going daily to but As Spain tries to assess the political and economic effects of joining the european eco nomic As agreed in Brussels late last a dramatic social transformation is drawing the country closer to the rest of Western the popular Spanish images depicted by writers such As Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell have not but Over the last two and particularly since the death of the dictator Francisco Franco in spaniards have been casting off nearly four centuries of it is spectacular How a very different Spain has been Juan Pablo a historian at the University of said in an you can see the changes from one Day to the few countries have had such a rapid change of such the changes can be seen in the mid dle class women and shop assistants Wear Chic French teenagers sport spiked and brilliantly coloured coiffure equal to the Best of the London the venerable Spanish with tapas such As marinated octopus and blood sausages to pick has been closing Down to make Way for mushrooming hamburger franchises and a popular Chain called where the latest Rock albums and movie videos Are served up along with italian once a quiet the is reputed today to have More discotheques than any other City in and Spanish Rock aided by Slick new Rock have come into their own As com posers and in a Small town in the South of Miguel a 27yearold pianist in a local Rock told a i feel More european than Andale a reflection not Only of How the changes have permeated the but also How being modern and being european Are equated among a virtual revolution has taken place in sexual Pedro a popular recently advertised con Doms on the state run National the advertise ment provoked dispute and were but it spaniards and foreigners alike enjoy the night life in april 1985 a photo socialist prime minister Felipe was a far cry from a decade ago when ruins former wife was evicted from a he for even asking for condoms because they were socially frowned divorce was legalized in and the parliament approved a Law permitting abortions in limited cases two years though the measures constitutionality is being topless bathing on the nations crowded beaches is now As it has Long been in much of the rest of the a Side product has also been an increase in pornography and cabarets Fea Turing Spain first clinic for sex changes opened Here last spaniards Are divided Over what Many see As a drop in but almost All Welcome a parallel explosion in High plays by Samuel Franz Kafka and Werner Fassbinder Are featured in Madrid Thea ters As spaniards try to catch up with 20thcentury european much of which was banned under an International film festival just a rus Sian Art exhibition will soon open and a Long series of concerts is celebrating the year of european the changes have a dark much of it related to is up As cocaine has become popular among the Middle heroin addicts litter major Cit ies such As Bilbao and and Many youths smoke or geographically isolated from the rest of Europe by the began to pull into itself in the Early the country resisted the reformation and other movements that swept the backed by a strongly conservative roman Catholic continued to emphasize that Spain was differ ent and morally but spaniards began to change socially in the 1960s As an extended economic Boom brought industrialization and higher living the population went from being mostly Rural to one in which roughly three quarters of the almost 37 million people today live in the death of Franco meant the end of but new ideas had already been infiltrating with the Waves of european tourists coming mostly from West Sweden and according to a recent poll by the Catholic 30 percent of spaniards still regularly attend among the highest percentages in but Church leaders concede attendance has been slowly and a 1978 Constitution ending the official status of the Church limited its political and social the socialist government of prime minister Felipe gon elected in today sets the More secular tone for the new the average age of the Cabinet ministers is just and Many of them lived or studied for a Europe was Europe was de Europe was a Model to Manuel the Secretary of state for european Community said in an social scientists say that perhaps the most profound change has been a displayed sense of political Modera Tion since Francos an attempted coup in 1981 and today the far right and the far left together hold less than 10 percent of the according to spaniards Are finally even laughing about the civil a current comedy film the Small ends with matadors from opposite sides in the War competing with their capes Over a cow caught Between the opposing the cow drops the stars and stripes Page 13