Dissidents Spain

The woman known as "La Pasionaria," whose revolutionary oratory rallied thousands to the Republican cause during Spain's 1936-39 civil war, is seriously ill with pneumonia, doctors said Thursday. Dolores Gomez Ibarruri, 93, was taken from her Madrid home to a hospital Wednesday night. Ibarruri, former leader of the Spanish Communist Party in exile, is being treated with antibiotics. Doctors said her heart is in good condition.

The woman known as "La Pasionaria," whose revolutionary oratory rallied thousands to the Republican cause during Spain's 1936-39 civil war, is seriously ill with pneumonia, doctors said Thursday. Dolores Gomez Ibarruri, 93, was taken from her Madrid home to a hospital Wednesday night. Ibarruri, former leader of the Spanish Communist Party in exile, is being treated with antibiotics. Doctors said her heart is in good condition.

Few thanks are due Fidel Castro for the release of dissident Cuban poet and journalist Raul Rivero and several other prominent government critics from a Havana prison this week. None of the 75 people Castro jailed in a wide crackdown on dissent last year should have been imprisoned. If thanks are to be issued, they are due to Spain.