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...France's 23 universities last week, 250.000 students abandoned their lectures in a carefully planned three-day boycott of classes. At the same time, class attendance at the University of Madrid dropped sharply during a ten-day strike, and 1,000 students conducted a protest march. In Italy, although the Catholic University of Milan was reopened after student protests had closed it for a week, absenteeism persisted; meanwhile, riotous students at the University of Naples barricaded Rector Giuseppe Tesauro in his own office until club-swinging police broke through the blockade...
...their true political beliefs. Since these are often considerably to the left of Franco's, the government is now insisting that politics has no place in a university. But politics was not the only issue responsible for a series of pitched battles between police and University of Madrid students; on a recent weekend some 80 protesters were arrested. Even some pro-Franco professors sympathize with student complaints that the university is chronically overcrowded, poorly equipped and sorely underfinanced...
...began with football; pro games from coast to coast cluttered the autumn Sunday. Then, with athletic diversions out of the way, television turned to the week's news.' And inevitably, the major preoccupation was with varying aspects of violence. There were films of angry student unrest from Madrid to Manhattan, and the most familiar dialogue the viewer heard came from policemen ordering antidraft demonstrators to "Move! Move faster...
WHEN I knew George during the summer the rich people had all left Madrid for the beaches so his little illegal business in land speculation was sucked dry. He was eating on the cuff and his duena was dunning him for the rent, but he would terrorize her with his deep voice and dark skin. He had only been in Spain two months and his Spanish wasn't up to quarrelling...
Under the new Constitution, 65 of the 563 seats in Parliament will still be chosen personally by el Caudillo. Two weeks ago, Franco stopped off in Madrid from a summer holiday in Galicia, announced his choices, then left again for some hunting in Andalucia. An other 394 members of Parliament will be picked by Spain's municipal councilmen, trade unions, Falange, and professional and cultural organizations. The big change will come in the selection of the remaining 104 members. They will be popularly elected by Spain's family heads and married women over 21, representing half of Spain...