Word: carrillo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Said Santiago Carrillo, secretary-general of the Spanish Communist Party: "I feel very much moved. Until today it was I who had to be received by them, in Rome or in Paris, and now it is I who can receive them in Madrid." With those words and a couple of warm abrazos, Carrillo welcomed Party Chieftains Enrico Berlinguer of Italy and Georges Marchais of France for a day and a half of Euro-Communist summitry in Madrid...
...Carrillo's arrest threatened to become an international cause célèbre. Occurring just after a nationwide referendum that overwhelmingly endorsed Premier Adolfo Suarez's political-reform program, it raised new questions about the regime's willingness to broaden participation in Spain's political life. Communist loyalists staged intermittent work stoppages and street demonstrations to protest the arrests, and FREEDOM FOR CARRILLO demands appeared on Madrid walls faster than government workers could clean them off. Protesters rallied in Paris and Rome. Italy's Christian Democratic government, which is dependent on the tacit support...
...Spanish government seemed to agree. Last week it released Carrillo and his colleagues on bail, temporarily defusing the crisis. In fact, Carrillo's release seemed tantamount to the legalization of his presence in Spain, from which he had been exiled for nearly four decades. He will probably not even be brought to trial before next spring, when Spain will hold its first parliamentary elections since pre-Franco days...
Spanish right-wingers wanted Carrillo tried as a "terrorist" for alleged crimes committed during the Civil War. But Madrid's Court of Public Order decreed that Carrillo and his comrades should be charged with a relatively light offense-violating a law against membership in a party "submitting to an international discipline that proposes to establish a totalitarian system" in Spain. If tried and convicted, the Carabanchel Eight could get as much as six years in prison...
...gesture calculated to force the issue, Carrillo surfaced three weeks ago-just before the referendum on political reform-at a Madrid press conference. Following 37 years in exile, mostly in France, he said, he had slipped back into Spain in February 1976, after he was refused a legal passport-and had crossed the border several times...