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...mounting problems. In the country's four northern provinces, for example, Arias has been unable to check the terrorism of Basque separatists. After the small secret ETA, the most radical of the Basque groups, recently shot five policemen, the Guardia Civil retaliated by sweeping through the areas around Bilbao and San Sebastián. Madrid admits to the arrest of 200 suspects, but a group of Basque lawyers claims that the number jailed totals 2,000. In the past month the government has also detained and beaten two Catholic priests suspected of aiding the separatists. So explosive...
...Yale troupe invests the silly plot with style, wit and perfect timing. The score is something more-a Kurt Weill marvel. Not only were the famous Bilbao Song and Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. They range from Song of the Big Shot ("Just don't get soft, baby/ For god's sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music...
...Vatican and the Roman Catholic government of Spain confronted one another last week in the country's most ominous church-state clash in more than 40 years. The regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco was seeking to expel the Bishop of Bilbao, Antonio Añoveros Ataun, 64, for statements that sharply opposed government policy. Madrid even hinted that it might break the 1953 concordat that protects Catholicism's legal position as Spain's state religion. In response, churchmen warned that any official-presumably including Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and even the pious Caudillo himself-who moved against...
Waiting Jet. Reprisal was swift. The bishop was at home brushing his teeth when police telephoned. "Please prepare yourself for a trip within half an hour," he was told. A jet was waiting at Bilbao's airport to fly the bishop and his vicar general to Rome. Before the government could move, the Spanish hierarchy rallied behind Añoveros. In Bilbao, priests, nuns and lay people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten...
...week's end the confrontation between Spain's government and its bishops had shifted from Bilbao to Madrid, where the two sides huddled separately seeking solutions to the imbroglio. The entire Cabinet met and reviewed the situation, and Franco himself spent three hours with government officials at his palace in what spokesmen called "an informal exchange of views." Eight miles away, the 19-member executive committee of the Spanish bishops conferred with Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón, Archbishop of Madrid. Among the 19 was Añoveros, who seemed scarcely contrite about having provoked the crisis...