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...Calvo-Sotelo 's gloomy message
Tthe Prime Minister-designate, a tall and dour man, had little cheer to offer his fellow politicians. Spain's young democracy was entering a perilous new era, he warned. Spaniards were disenchanted and pessimistic, the economic situation was "bitter and hard." In those gloomy terms, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 54, last week went before the Cortes to seek approval for a new minority government.His 75-minute speech contained no bold departures, no ringing calls to greatness. Instead, it was a gingerly tiptoe around the thorny issues-divorce, Basque nationalism, party infighting-that had discouraged his predecessor, Adolfo...
...prudent but far from memorable beginning for Calvo-Sotelo. A successful engineer-businessman from one of Spain's most prominent political families -the assassination of an uncle in 1936 helped spark the Spanish Civil War-he was most recently Suárez's deputy prime minister for the economy. When Suarez suddenly stepped down last month, Calvo-Sotelo inherited the mandate-and with it a ruling party, the Union of the Democratic Center, that is divided on most major political issues. Moreover, even a united U.C.D. could muster only 165 votes in the 350-seat Cortes, eleven short...
...Madrid. An autopsy showed evidence of torture. The scandal forced the arrests or resignations of several police officials, brought tens of thousands of angry Basques into the streets -and all but ended E.T.A.'s growing isolation among Basque moderates. Under the circumstances, the Basque Nationalist Party informed Calvo-Sotelo, there could be no possibility of open support for the new government. The Basque troubles were further aggravated at week's end when suspected E.T.A. gunmen kidnaped the consuls of Austria, El Salvador and Uruguay from their homes in Pamplona and Bilbao...
Given the tense atmosphere, it was no surprise that Calvo-Sotelo carefully skirted the big issues in his Cortes speech. He pledged that his government would "guarantee the rights of people held in detention," but gave no indication of what he planned to do about the Arregui case. He spoke of the need for sacrifice and austerity in dealing with Spain's economic problems, but for the most part merely hinted at possible cutbacks to come...