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Looking nervously over his shoulder at France, whose turmoil has been thoroughly chronicled in the Spanish press, Franco has since made his first concession to the students. To alleviate congestion in the nation's overcrowded universities, the government promised to open three new universities in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao and add smaller polytechnical institutes in two other cities. But student militants remained unimpressed, and last week several hundred demonstrators took over the schools of philosophy and letters, science, and economics at the University Madrid, threw up barricades, and held their ground for more than two hours before vacating...
...isolated, the Basque country has boomed into Spain's most dynamic industrial area and one of its most prosperous. San Sebastián (pop. 149,000) is the nation's summer capital and most fashionable resort, boasts the highest per capita spending rate in all of Spain. Bilbao (pop. 357,000) is a throbbing city of steel mills and shipyards, whose skies are darkened by factory smoke by day and glow with the fires of blast furnaces by night. It is also Spain's banking capital, the headquarters of two of Spain's five great banking...
...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, Spain's burgeoning industries were bothered by sit-ins, walkouts, and slowdowns...
...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...
...across the Guadalquivir, tens of thousands of spinning bobbins turn raw cotton and wool into finished fabric in one of Europe's largest textile plants. In the main square of Cordoba, an Arab caliphate for 250 years, a transcribed electric guitar chimes the hour in flamenco rhythm. In Bilbao, shipyards work round the clock to keep pace with orders for merchant vessels from all over the world-including Communist Poland and Cuba. "Everything is changing in Spain," says Industrialist Eduardo Barreiros. "The commotion is from top to bottom and bottom...