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Subsequent events followed a now familiar script. In Bilbao, another Basque city, the West German consul received a postcard from Beihl identifying the kidnapers as members of the E.T.A.-for Euskadi at Askatu-sana ("Basque Land and Liberty"). A minuscule but tautly organized terrorist group, E.T.A. has been skirmishing with General Francisco Franco's regime for years. Beihl's future, it was made clear, would depend on the fate of 16 E.T.A. guerrillas who went on trial last week in Burgos for the 1968 murder of a San Sebastián police chief and other terrorist activities...
...demanding ever larger ships, and builders have to meet the orders so that competitors will not run away with them. Since 1968, the oil companies have put into service twelve ships of 200,000 tons or more-called "oilbergs"-and they have 170 more on order in yards from Bilbao to Yokohama. Last week California Standard contracted for a pair of 260,000-tonners from Japan's Mitsubishi. Britain's Scott Lithgow group two weeks ago landed its first order for an oilberg, a 250,000-tonner to be constructed for Anglo Norness, a Bermuda-based shipping company...
...blunt some of the impact of the case. Still, the SEC publicly rebuked ten Merrill Lynch employees, and seven were ordered temporarily suspended without pay. Among them were Archangelo Catapano, a vice president and the firm's aerospace specialist, who was suspended for 60 days, Philip F. Bilbao, vice president and manager of institutional services, and five of his salesmen each drew 21 days. Three other Merrill Lynch employees, including two more vice presidents, were just censured. The commission also ordered Merrill Lynch to close its New York institutional sales office for 21 days and its West Coast underwriting...
...several young Roman Catholic priests. In fact, many Basque priests advocate separatism as bluntly as E.T.A. guerrillas, defiantly fly the illegal Basque flag and chafe under Spain's state-supported church hierarchy. Two weeks ago, 47 young priests staged a vigil in the bishop's palace in Bilbao for six days, left only when the church agreed to demote their vicar-general and name a committee to study their demands for freedom from "temporal interference...
...just as agile as ever at playing rivals off against one another. In some ways, what rankles many Spaniards most is the government's retreat from its promise to relax its tight rein over significant portions of the country's life. After a strike shut down a Bilbao steel plant for seven months, the 1965 right-to-strike law was revoked, a bitter blow to labor. The much heralded press law of 1966 had its freedom riders seriously curtailed by the inclusion of press offenses in the penal code, which provides the regime with a handy means...