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...wisdom in the conduct of international relations and greater brotherhood among individuals. The U.S. continued to improve relations with China and clung to a strained detente with the Soviet Union. But political sentiments elsewhere still were expressed in the blood language of terrorist bombs and bullets, from Belfast to Madrid, Rome to Khartoum. Once more men died in battles on the hot sands of the Sinai and in the barren Golan Heights. The first freely elected Marxist leader in the world was killed in a right-wing rebellion in Chile; a changing of the guardians refurbished authoritarian rule in Greece...
...Spanish economy, the Basques continue to regard the Franco regime as an illegitimate usurper of their ancient liberties. They fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-when for a few months an autonomous Basque Republic existed-and ever since they have been regarded by the Madrid government as a potential source of unrest. Though several have achieved high national positions, none of the civil or military governors of the four provinces are Basque. The Guardia Civil, a branch of the national security police, is concentrated more heavily in those provinces than in any other part of Spain...
...achieve its ultimate goal of Basque independence, the E.T.A. is today the group with the greatest ability to create serious trouble for Franco's regime. It has proved that it can strike when and whom it pleases, and it clearly intends to make more trouble for the Madrid government...
...that have governed the country since its Civil War. The new President will be Carlos Arias Navarro, 65, who was Spain's top cop as head of the Dirección General de Seguridad, the national security police, from 1957 to 1965. After that he became mayor of Madrid and last June he was made Interior Minister, in charge of state security, in Carrero Blanco's Cabinet. A harsh advocate of law-and-order, he has a wide following among the ultra-right wing, which criticized even the conservative Carrero Blanco for liberal tendencies. He may respond...
...comparison with the other groups confronting the increasingly harried Franco, the academic community seemed relatively tame. Police, however, clashed with students on at least seven occasions during the past year at Madrid University, and the authorities carried on a running battle with some professors. "I got into trouble merely for trying to teach some comparative law, that is, to compare the philosophical foundations of the Spanish system with those of other countries," said an eminent socialist lawyer who was fired from Madrid University. "The fact that I concluded in favor of the Spanish system apparently did not convince the authorities...