Word: camachos
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...sudden crackdown on opposition to the new regime, the Spanish police arrested nearly 300 political dissidents yesterday, including the recently freed leftist labor leader. Marcelino Camacho...
...massive show or police power, the biggest in years, undercut new King Juan Carlos's efforts at liberalization and his pardon order freeing Camacho and a few others serving sentences for "political offenses...
...Associated Press reported that the policemen picked up the 57-year-old Camacho near his home as he went to buy a Sunday newspaper. They have so far declined to specify charges and denied his wife and lawyer permission...
Within minutes of Camacho's arrest the police began seizing anyone considered suspicious within a half-mile radius of Madrid's Carabanchel Prison, where the illegal Communist Party had called a demonstration to demand amnesty for the rest of Spain's estimated 2000 political prisoners. The demonstration never started...
...spread rapidly iow has chapters in factories all over Spain; it has also reached some white-collar employees, such as bank clerks and office personnel. In theory, the commissions are illegal, but in fact they are tacitly tolerated by the government, though one of their organizers, ex-Socialist Marcelino Camacho, is now on trial in Madrid on charges of leading an illegal demonstration. As a result, Camacho has become something of a modern Spanish hero...