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...terrorists' plan: to build popular resentment of far-off Madrid and to increase separatist yearnings among the historically disaffected Basques. In the past 13 years the ETA has killed more than 350 victims, carefully choosing as its targets police, army and political figures. One was Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the man Franco had hand-picked as his successor. In 1973 Carrero Blanco and his automobile were blown four stories high in Madrid by an exploding land mine, a spectacular event that led to a popular folk song in Basque country with a refrain that begins, "Whoops, he goes...
...most threatened area in the Mountain West may be Colorado's gorgeous and still half-empty Western Slope. It is estimated that if Exxon does build 150 oil-shale plants there, the population in Rio Blanco and Garfield counties could shoot from 75,000 to 1.5 million. Colorado Senator Gary Hart has figured that the Exxon project alone would require enough new schools, hospitals and roads each year to accommodate a city the size of Grand Junction (pop. 54,000), now the largest city in western Colorado. Water would have to be imported from...
...other values for those of democratic, bourgeois society." His best-known works include El Laberinto de la Soledad (The Labyrinth of Solitude), an essay on Mexican character described by Irving Howe as "a central text of our time" and long metaphysical poems like Piedra de sol (Sun Stone) and Blanco...
...forgotten, hidden within the sprawling streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico's largest city, lies the small village-like community of San Domingo. During the summer, Ana Maria Garcia Blanco, along with the people of San Domingo, opened a school for the children of the community. She was implementing ideas, combining her Puerto Rican heritage and her work during the last two years as a member of the Student Board of Radcliffe's Education for Action (E4A). With many ages working together in small groups, the Puerto Rican students study the history of their neighborhood; the songs and poetry...
...Marxistoriented, ETA seeks total independence for the provinces (and links with Basque areas of France) and rejects government offers of regional autonomy. Estimated active membership: 60 to 120, with thousands of supporters in the northern provinces of Spain. Its archcrime: the 1973 bombing murder of Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, then Franco's Premier...