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...woman," said a senior West German official about Thatcher's determination to pursue the military offensive in the South Atlantic. At last week's NATO summit in Bonn, the alliance's newest member, Spain, opposed a joint declaration of support for Britain. Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo declared that "a military conflict is tearing the Western world apart and threatening to open up a profound rift of extremely serious political and historic consequences...
Since the failed coup attempt, Spanish civilian politicians, led by Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, have moved far more cautiously in liberalizing one of Western Europe's most monolithic and centralized governments, and Madrid has thrown the national police into a straightforward drive against the terrorists with a good deal of success. So far this year ETA killings are down to 28, about half the 1980 rate. Last week the government announced the arrest of seven alleged ETA members in Vizcaya province and the seizure of substantial quantities of arms and ammunition. In an attempt to rebuild its popularity...
From time to time, frustrated Spaniards have wondered about a possible Soviet hand behind ETA. In May, Prime Minister Calvo-Sotelo spoke vaguely of the "international" dimensions of the terrorist problem. But he has not repeated that statement. The question asked more frequently by moderate politicians in Madrid is why ETA keeps trying to provoke a right-wing coup that would take back everything the Basques have gained since Franco's death. Answers a Basque nationalist in exile in France: "It would only demonstrate what they already believe, that Spain is basically fascist, that they were right all along...
Faced with these questions, Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotek>last week told the Cortes, the country's parliament, that "we do not know" who was behind the bank raid. Some high officials believe, however, that members of the political underworld are being recruited and trained for terrorist operations with military or police connivance, and that the financiers are wealthy supporters of the old Franco regime, who are deliberately trying to destabilize Spain. As the evidence mounted, Prime Minister Calvo-Sotelo finally admitted that the bank raid was "not an isolated action of common criminals...
Since the right-wing coup attempt in February, Calvo-Sotelo's Union of the Democratic Center government, fearing the wrath of the military, has not moved decisively against the arrested officers. Calvo-Sotelo believes that any attempt to neutralize the generals' political influence will simply provoke more outbreaks of right-wing terror, perhaps culminating in a successful coup that would indeed bring the military and its allies to power a la turca...