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Invariably, violence by ETA has bred violence in reprisals by the Government and "terrorist" activities may more accurately be labeled acts of desperation than serious attempts at coercion. Government reation to assassination has established a precedent of carte blanche policy,; when a soldier, policeman or official is killed, law is...
The five men were tried under a new antiterrorism law which provides for execution very soon after the pronouncement of the death penalty, with no right of appeal. The cases had been shifted from civilian courts to military courts, which gave little consideration to the defense. Additionally, I think there...
Dynamite Charge. Cause of the new wave of violence: the execution last month of five terrorists convicted at summary military trials of murdering policemen (TIME, Oct. 6). Basque separatists and radical leftists of the Patriotic Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Front (FRAP) tried to avenge the executions with new killings. Early last...
Wertmuller's failure to overcome the sexist stereotypes she depicts cannot be excused as incidental, as a flawed execution of good intentions that can be minimized in interpreting the film. Her inability to carry out the comic project she creates for herself in the first half of film shows that...
As most of Europe saw it, the death sentences suggested a return to the days when the Franco regime virtually ruled by gun and garrote. Until last Friday, when el Caudillo commuted the death sentence of six other terrorists, one of them a pregnant woman, there had been eleven convicts...