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Accompanied by a motorcade of black limousines and police on motorcycles, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain visited the Harvard campus yesterday to inaugurate a fellowship program involving Harvard and one of Spain's largest universities...
...right politics, go back to the French Revolution. From Stockholm to Rome, from Lisbon to Bonn, socialist and social-democratic movements are in trouble. The Italian party is entangled in financial scandals that prompted Bettino Craxi's resignation as chairman and may put dozens of members behind bars. In Spain, Felipe Gonzalez's party could well face defeat in elections later this year. Britain's Labour Party has been unable to win a national election in 14 years, while Germany's Social Democratic Party has been frozen out of government since 1982. In Scandinavia, the long-ruling Social Democrats were...
...Spain's current slump might explain an outburst of race tensions, which tends to explode when economic conditions sour. Unemployment in Spain, according to The Economist, is the highest in Europe. Yet industrial production hasn't fallen as much as in other countries, wage growth is among the best anywhere, and to my eyes most of the stores seemed to be doing brisk business. Most Spaniards, undoubtedly, aren't bigots. Something more than economic frustration, some cultural hiccup, drives the apparent dismissal of the horrors of racism...
History provides no explanation, either. Francisco Franco, a rightist generalisimo who received aid from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the early years of his four-decade-long dictatorship, tried to impose a rigid moralistic and nationalist ethos upon Spain. Liberal intellectuals and partisans of Basque, Galicia, and Catalonia culture bristled under Franco...
...Franco died 18 years ago, and I just didn't get the sense that anybody wanted him back. Spain's less numerous nationalities, Catalans included, enjoy the linguistic and political (albeit limited) autonomy for which they longed under Franco...