Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Even before the victim of Canada's first political kidnaping was set free in Montreal last week, the new brand of terror had spread to Europe. In San Sebastian, a prospering seaport in northern Spain's Basque country, a gang of youthful urban guerrillas was waiting when Eugen...
Subsequent events followed a now familiar script. In Bilbao, another Basque city, the West German consul received a postcard from Beihl identifying the kidnapers as members of the E.T.A.-for Euskadi at Askatu-sana ("Basque Land and Liberty"). A minuscule but tautly organized terrorist group, E.T.A. has been skirmishing with...
Stunned, the regime dispatched extra police to the Basque provinces, where tensions were already at the flash point. In protest, 150,000 workers walked off their jobs. Schools shut down, stores closed, and young Basques battled with police in dozens of towns. In Madrid, Franco interrupted his 78th birthday celebration...
Born Free. Well before the kidnaping, the Burgos trial had been shaping up as an important test of public support of the regime that has run Spain for the past 31 years. For Franco, the trial was to be the climax of an uncompromising two-year campaign to crush the...
Death sentences have been demanded for the six defendants who are charged with direct involvement in the 1968 case. The others face prison terms ranging from six to 80 years. Protests against the trial have poured into Madrid from Spain's bishops, from the Vatican, even from the commander...