Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene was worthy of Goya. Out of Barcelona's Gothic Santa Eulalia Cathedral marched a procession of 120 angry, black-robed priests bearing a petition that preached against the government. From the other direction charged a crowd of grises-the grey-clad, club-swinging cops who maintain order in Spain. Before the melee was ended, blood flowed from anointed pates. It was another sign of the crisis that Spain is undergoing on the long road to reality...
...priests were supporting the cause of Barcelona University students, who have long been demanding "free associations" in their colleges as opposed to the Madrid-dictated "syndicates" that have long called the collegiate shots. The cops, on the other hand, were merely trying to maintain order-a major problem in Spain since the days of the Moors...
...incident occurred during a massive demonstration protesting the recent closing of the University of Barcelona. The Univeristy was closed last week by the Franco regime following a series of
Still another augury of change in Spain came in Barcelona. Fortnight ago, some 350 students and distinguished intellectuals staged a sit-in at a Capuchin monastery to set up a "Free Student Union" in opposition to the government-controlled University Students' Syndicate. Police surrounded the monastery, shut off the electricity, food supplies and telephone, then waited exactly 45 hours before breaking in to disperse the intellectuals...
Police Intrusion. For the first time in memory the government communique issued afterward made no charge of subversive or left-wing influence. The reason: deference to the rapidly growing opposition from right-wing and Catholic circles to restrictive government measures. The reaction of Barcelona's clergy to this first police violation of ecclesiastical property in the postwar era was prompt and stinging. Parish priests were instructed to rail against the police intrusion and denial of the right of assembly in their Sunday sermons last week. One, following the call to the traditional prayer "for the health of the Chief...