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MILESTONES, Page 58
DIED. Dolores Ibarruri, 93, Communist leader in the Spanish
CiviláWar known as "La Pasionaria" (the Passion Flower); in Madrid.
Ibarruriáwas famous for her heated and inspiring rhetoric on radio
broadcasts during the conflict, declaiming "It is better to die on
your feet than to live on your knees!" When Madrid fell to Franco's
forces in 1939, she fled to France and then to the Soviet Union.
Ibarruri became Communist Party President, a largely ceremonial
post, in exile in 1960; returning to Spain in 1977, she was elected
to Parliament.