Word: separatists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with serious intentions of introducing reforms that would have permitted the growth of embryonic political parties, he was apparently overruled by Franco hardliners, alarmed by the leftward turn of events in Portugal. The promised "freedom of political association" never materialized. Almost inevitably, muted anti-Franco opposition turned to violence. Separatist movements in the four northern Basque provinces and in Catalonia gained momentum, and this summer FRAP emerged, gunning down policemen in Madrid and Barcelona...
...Franco's regime to carry out the death sentence that had been ordered in the cases of five terrorists, each of whom had been convicted of killing a policeman. Two of the condemned men, Angel Otaegui Echevarria, 33, and Juan Paredes Manot, 21, were members of a Basque separatist organization; the other three, Ramón Garcia Sanz, 27, José Humberto Baena Alonso, 23, and José Luis Sánchez-Bravo Solla, 21, were members of a small, recently formed Marxist urban-guerrilla outfit called the Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Patriotic Front (FRAP), a violent offshoot of Spain...
...carts in supermarkets, and spear-carrying warriors in the hills go into their occasional battles with blaring transistor radios strapped to their bodies. On a political level, the latest fad is independence-and not just from Australia. Prime Minister Somare's new government is already plagued by two separatist movements...
...Question. The situation is further complicated by Cabinda, the rich enclave separated from Angola by a strip of Zaire territory. A separatist group known as the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (F.L.E.C.) last week declared the territory independent. Although F.L.E.C. is puny, there are fears that if Angola continues to fall apart, Zaïre will seize the territory...
...would contribute 8,000 troops to a national army, to be matched by 24,000 Portugese. The last Portugese troops are scheduled to leave on February 29, 1976. The accords also declared Cabinda, an oil-rich enclave along the Congo River, to be an integral part of Angola, quashing separatist hopes nourished by Zaire, Congo and Gulf...