Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wound in a woolen balaclava against the biting Pyrenees winds, led a small band through a high mountain pass into Spain. Francisco Sabater had made the trip a hundred times before, and as always, he expected to arrive unannounced. But someone in France had talked, and Spanish policemen from Barcelona to the border-the "state troopers" of the Guardia Civil, city detectives, even village watchmen-were on the alert for him. For 20 years, Sabater had defied capture; for ten years he had ranked as Franco Spain's most wanted criminal...
...stoutly independent Catalan people of his native province, the 44-year-old Sabater was a legend. A tough young leader in the anarchist movement, he fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Republican army until Barcelona fell and Franco subdued Catalonia. With other anarchist leaders, he escaped to France, set up a "school of terrorism" in Toulouse to harass Franco. Sabater's specialty was training young recruits in bombmaking and commando tactics, then leading them on raids back into Spain...