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...bombings so far this year. The government strategy backfired: political parties allied with the ETA, which demands independence for the Basques, won 17 of the parliament's 60 seats. As a whole, Basque autonomist parties captured 42 seats to a mere six for Suárez's Madrid-based centrists. In the capital, senior members of the government morosely described the result as "a disaster...
...their complaints about Suárez, few politicians believe that the Premier is likely to be unseated soon; all parties agree that another election would not really change the present balance of forces. But Suárez has shown signs of personal frustration. He has tended to withdraw inside Madrid's Moncloa Palace and surround himself with a coterie of protective advisers. An aide even goes so far as to liken his isolation to that of Richard Nixon in the White House...
...ominous symptom of malaise is the growing visibility of a neofascist movement called the Fuerza Nueva (New Force). The party, led by a wealthy Madrid lawyer named Bias Piñar, 62, attracts alienated youth from some of Madrid's best families, who mix with a cadre of thugs and shadowy political operatives adept at exploiting a residual streak of nostalgia for the Franco era. Fuerza Nueva captured 350,000 votes-a mere .02%-in last year's national election. But the ultrarightists attract disproportionate attention with fiery street rallies and attacks, with iron bars and bicycle chains...
...MADRID, Sept. 15, 1975 Four armed Palestinian terrorists break into Egyptian embassy, take three hostages and threaten to blow up the building unless Cairo renounces the Sinai pact with Israel. Flown to Algiers with five hostages, terrorists surrender to the P.L.O. All the hostages are freed...
...Surrey village Wodehousefully named Chipping Sodbury, worked for eight years as a Madison Avenue copywriter to finance his career as a novelist. The experience appears to have sharpened his sense of irony. He writes lyrically of the terrain of Spain, of the "vast and seamless tent" of sky above Madrid. Like his hero, who never set foot in England, Robinson has never even seen Madrid...