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Even before their spectacular assassination of President Luis Carrero Blanco, members of the E.T. A. (for Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna-meaning Basque Land and Liberty) were electrifying Spain with their terrorist raids. In addition to many fire and bombing attacks, the small band of fanatical Basque separatists has since 1969 committed six assassinations, three kidnapings and 40 bank raids, collecting $14 million. Earlier this year, after police fatally shot a Basque leader, Eustaquio Mendizabal, the E.T. A. was comparatively quiet. But the Basques have recently renewed their terrorism with a vengeance. Their ultimate, if fanciful aim: to unite all the Basques...
...days Dictator Francisco Franco labored over one of the most momentous decisions of his career. Not only was the 81-year-old Caudillo appointing a successor to President Luis Carrero Blanco, who was assassinated by Basque terrorists, but he was probably naming as well his own successor as the guiding hand of Spain in the fast-approaching post-Franco...
...Navarro, 65, who was Spain's top cop as head of the Dirección General de Seguridad, the national security police, from 1957 to 1965. After that he became mayor of Madrid and last June he was made Interior Minister, in charge of state security, in Carrero Blanco's Cabinet. A harsh advocate of law-and-order, he has a wide following among the ultra-right wing, which criticized even the conservative Carrero Blanco for liberal tendencies. He may respond to the assassination by even greater repression of moderates and liberals-a move that would undoubtedly aggravate...
Despite the political tensions, the country was curiously quiet in the aftermath of Carrero Blanco's murder. Predictions of widespread violence were proved wrong-at least for the moment. "The reaction has shown the maturity of the Spanish people," trumpeted Madrid's Nuevo Diario...
...example to possible troublemakers, the government gave savage 12-to 20-year sentences to ten leftists convicted of organizing underground labor unions. To show that the state was secure and that the plot against Carrero Blanco had been uncovered, the Seguridad announced within 48 hours the results of its investigation. It pinpointed six members of the Basque separatist organization, the E.T.A., who it said were involved in the assassination...