Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Street Referendum. Though it was all carefully orchestrated-right down to the light planes towing VIVA FRANCO banners overhead-the mammoth rally nonetheless gave evidence that Franco could still count on the fealty of the working-class Falangists who brought him to power 31 years ago. The last time he...
The focal point of the crisis was not in Madrid, but 130 miles away in Burgos. There in a military court 16 young radicals from Spain's northern Basque country are on trial on charges of assorted "separatist-terrorist-Communist activities." The 16 are members of the E.T.A. (for...
The regime had envisioned the trial as the climax of a two-year campaign to crush, once and for all, a nationalist resurgence in Spain's four Basque provinces. But the kidnaping of Eugen Beihl, a West German diplomat still held hostage somewhere in Spain, proved that the E.T.A...
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Silent Majority. Though most of Spain's 2,000,000 Basques-prosperous, Catholic and deeply conservative-care little about the E.T.A.'s fuzzy vision of "a socialist Basque state," the provinces fell in behind the Burgos 16. Unsettled by stories of police torture and by the fact that...