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This is precisely what Madrid politicians fear most. For months there has been talk among the military and right-wing civilians about simultaneously ending both the constant threat of terrorist acts by Basque separatists and the bothersome problems of Spanish democracy a la turca-in the style of the tough Turkish generals who took over their country last fall...
...ways to express shock, grief, horror, apprehension. By now the words have all been said-again, and again, and again. But they acquired new poignancy last week. Of the millions of expressions of sorrow, none exceeded in directness and simplicity the cry of a sobbing woman in Madrid: "The world has gone...
...hence an un likely target for a leftist group. GRAPO, skeptics noted, has materialized at other critical moments in Spain's political life, each time to carry out operations that might easily, in truth, have been the work of right-wing hit squads. At the very least, the Madrid daily Diario 16 headlined, GRAPO was a leftist name with fascist objectives...
...Madrid abounded in conspiracy theories even before the latest killings, thanks to some disclosures of testimony in the investigation of Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, one of the leaders of the failed military putsch. In the "Tejero papers," the imprisoned officer tried to implicate Juan Carlos himself in the plot, as well as a number of high-ranking army officers, even though the King repudiated the plotters and almost singlehandedly prevented a takeover. Juan Carlos has denied the charge, but most political analysts agree that the leaked testimony will put additional pressure on Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo to avoid...
Calvo-Sotelo discounted the prospects of a second attempt to seize power. But right-wing demonstrators were marching through Madrid loudly chanting the name of their latest hero...