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...entire history of the United States' post-World War II relations with Spain can be summed up in this little junket to Madrid: U.S. interests in Spain have always been tactical and utilitarian...
Truman's stance on the 1953 Madrid Pact--the first executive agreement with Spain--at least in the context of early Cold War politics and the limited capabilities of Soviet bombers seems understandable if not justifiable. But even after the Soviets' development of long-range missiles made the idea of an untouchable Spanish base obsolete, the U.S. continued and increased aid to Spain in spite of Franco...
...pacifist methods of resistence, a younger set of Basques formed this new resistance organization. They profess to share the objectives and ultimate goals of the BNP, but differ tactically from the parent party. ETA has claimed credit for several assassinations including that of Spanish Premier Luis Carrero Blanco in Madrid in December of 1973. There are several small revolutionary groups in Spain at this time and it is difficult to tell exactly how many acts of violence ETA has been responsible for over the past five years. It is unlikely that they have perpetrated all they have claimed...
Fearful Hassan. At week's end the U.N. was still hoping mediation would settle the crisis. One plan, reportedly agreeable to both Madrid and Algiers, involves a six-month U.N. administration of the colony, during which Spanish troops would gradually withdraw, followed by elections in which the inhabitants would decide their political future. Hassan, however, fears voting in the colony would be manipulated by the Algerians, who have strong links to the leftist Polisario Front, the Sahara's best-organized political group. On Saturday, nevertheless, the King received a special envoy from Spain, Cabinet Member Antonio Carro Martinez...
...civilized" import that came later, hailing the eventual benefits of modernization and preaching gradualism. But landless Andulusian Farm hands and Catalonian textile workers were Anarchists until 1939--they dreamed of a collective society run by ordinary people and not by petty officials. The Socialists and Communists controlled Madrid during the Civil War, and the city knew no internal disorder. In Barcelona, where Anarchist workers held sway, there was revolution...