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...they will lay wreaths and offer fascist salutes, as they do every year. But this time, their pilgrimage will take place in a country that is ready to confront the dark chapter of its dictatorship - and perhaps finally put to rest the legacy of Francisco Franco. After igniting a civil war in 1936 when he led a coup against Spain's democratically elected government, Franco and his Nationalist forces - aided by Germany and Italy - finally prevailed in 1939. For the next 36 years, Franco ruled the country; he sent political prisoners to concentration camps and homosexuals to mental asylums...
...Civil War and Francoism Commission, which among other tasks will advise the government on whether and how it should alter the Valley of the Fallen, has so far been silent. The Commission was set up by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in July 2004 to consider appropriate ways to remember victims of both the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship. It has twice postponed releasing its recommendations. "In the course of the Commission's work, more and more questions have arisen," says Ana Salado, spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister María Teresa Fernández...
...here for the past 15 years, it's hard to digest the speed and size of the changes wrought in Spain since Franco died. When I first visited in the late 1960s, driving around in a 1959 Hillman Husky shipped on the Southampton-Bilbao ferry, the tricornio-hatted Guardia Civil scared the churros out of me and my friends. Now, the Guardia address citizens as sir or madam, women have been admitted to active service ? and either sex can opt for the surgery Leonor won't need. For example, Alba Romero of Jaén, a serving Guardia Civil like...
...helicopter. She went to take a firsthand look at the work of the first of 16 U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Teams to be deployed in Iraq, a program that she has been instrumental in developing. Each team will comprise about 50 State Department officials and the same number of military civil affairs personnel. Their mission will be to funnel money and expertise to grassroots Iraqi political leaders, business people and non-governmental organizations working to jump-start government services, schools, health care and security...
...times call for drastic measures. “The chance that these fanatics will get these nuclear weapons and use them is not small.” But Heymann warned against this attitude. “It is a fundamental mistake to think that the solution is to throw civil liberties out,” he said. “We can’t afford to be knee-jerk about national security...