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...unprecedented defiance of Madrid, Alava's provincial authorities declared themselves "profoundly disgusted by the government's acts." More than 30,000 people gathered for the slain men's funeral at the cathedral, where an angry priest thundered against the "brutal violence" of the police. While Vitoria mourned, workers in Bilbao, Pamplona and other Basque cities streamed off their jobs in sympathy, closing down hundreds of factories...
...workers all across Spain, the city's laborers gave vent to years of frustration after Franco's death. With the clergy's blessing, striking workers met in illegal assembly in the city's churches to air their demands for higher wages and their conviction that Madrid must yield more authority to local governments...
...Spanish colony (103,000 sq. mi., pop. 73,000) began in the wake of last November's "Green March"-350,000 unarmed, Koran-carrying Moroccans dispatched by King Hassan II to lay claim to the territory. Though the marchers halted short of Spanish battle lines, Hassan secured from Madrid an agreement partitioning the colony between Morocco and Mauritania. Algeria quickly denounced the deal and warned darkly of "protracted guerrilla...
Critics of the regime can point to recent incidents that have discredited the "liberal" image fostered by the government since the death of Franco. Last month, for example, two leading leftist organizations, the Junta Democratica and the Plata Forma, announced plans for a mass demonstration in downtown Madrid to protest the slow pace of political reforms. The regime's response was to display thousands of security forces who took up places in the Plaza de Colón, where the rally was to be held, and sealed it off from demonstrators...
...past 15 months, several hundred agents in Stockholm, Athens, Lisbon, Madrid, Mexico City, London and Paris have had their covers blown, mostly by leftist papers. Last week the leftist French daily Liberation, founded by Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, disclosed on two successive days the names of 44 CIA people in the Paris embassy, including the home addresses and telephone numbers of the top officers. In London, a trendy weekly social and entertainment guide called Time Out named three new CIA employees in the U.S. embassy (in 1975 Time Out printed the names of 62 CIA people with a chart...