Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening in Barcelona of Casals Conducts, a 15-minute documentary that won a 1965 Academy Award, the audience gave a standing ovation to the stooped old man whose image appeared on the screen. It was the first time that the Spanish government had permitted a movie to be shown of famed Cellist Pablo Casals, 90, who left his native land in bitter protest against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. There were indications, too, that the government would like to forgive and forget, would welcome him if he chose to return home. But Casals was ada mant. "There...
...Spain, was badly beaten by police armed with truncheons at the Uni versity of Madrid. Two U.S. TV reporters-NBC's Al Rosenfeld and ABC's Har ry Debelius-were picked up by the police while they were trying to cover demonstrations at the University of Barcelona; Debelius' press-accreditation card has not been renewed...
Until recently, strikes and demonstrations were the rare exceptions in Spain; by last week they seemed to have become the rule. Shouting "Freedom, Freedom!" 2,000 students surged out of Madrid University to scuffle with squads of grey-clad police. After the Madrid riot was put down, students in Barcelona took up the fight; even women students joined in, whacking cops with rock-filled purses. Striking miners closed down 21 pits in the always tense Asturias area, and 7,000 textile workers staged a one-day walkout in Barcelona. Steel workers struck a major cold-rolling plant in Bilbao. Elsewhere...
...politics also clearly played a role in last week's disturbances. Clandestine Communist labor leaders wanted to demonstrate their considerable power among Spanish workers. So far, police have kept the disturbances well under control, and students calmed down so quickly after classes were suspended that both Madrid and Barcelona universities expected shortly to resume normal schedules...
...striking, the regime has not tried to enforce all the law's stipulations. Government mediators have been working furiously since mid-December to try to head off a nationwide rail strike threatened by the National Transportation Syndicate, a supposedly docile trade union controlled by the government. In Barcelona last week, a series of sitdown strikes at the government-owned SEAT auto plant brought a government agreement to study the workers' demands for higher pay. In Bilbao, 750 sheet-metal workers have been on strike since the end of November to protest "contract violations" by their employer...