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...midweek, a small white car sped past police headquarters in the Barcelona suburb of La Verneda just after midnight and sprayed the modern building with machine-gun fire. No one was injured. A few moments later, another white car approached the station. Trigger-happy police, believing the second car to be part of the assault, blazed away with their weapons, killing the auto's passengers-a couple and their son returning home from a wake. For reasons still unknown, the police inside the headquarters then fired at a gray police Jeep that had been following the second...
...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...
Awaiting Trial. Franco responded to the terrorism by increasing security forces and setting up strict border watches to prevent infiltration of political dissidents from France and Portugal. In recent weeks there have been elaborate roundups of suspected terrorists in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao, with as many as 82 arrests in a single day. An estimated 200 now await trial by military tribunals...
...other executions also took place that day as planned, one in Burgos and the other in Barcelona. There was no word from El Pardo Palace of Franco's activities of the day. Certainly the gas-station attendant had been ill-informed when he claimed that Franco always goes out on Saturdays...
...best shots; if he thought an adversary had got a bad linesman's call, he would chivalrously knock his next return into the net. He smiled his toothy grin when his rivals snarled or cursed. But last week Manuel Orantes, 26, an optician's son from Barcelona, took the center court at Forest Hills in the U.S. Open tournament and beat the stuffing out of Jimmy Connors, 23, who has a lot of stuffing and some of the best shots in all tennis. Orantes dinked, he dunked and he tossed top-spin lobs just over the head...