Word: cortese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If a conservative tide is running in some parts of Europe, Spain certainly is bucking it. For the first time since the Civil War, Socialists are in power, having trounced a collapsing center and a regrouping right in national elections in October. Last month their popularity was confirmed in municipal...
Both chronologically and geographically, the cases she will consider are widespread: the Trojan decision to knock down their walls to admit the wooden horse. Montezuma's refusal to send his vast armies against Cortes. Napoleon's fated invasion of Russia, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the American involvement...
By 11:55 p.m. last Friday, four hours after the polls closed, the outcome was already clear: a decisive victory for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), which will have an absolute majority of 201 seats in Spain's 350-member Cortes, up from 120 seats in 1979. The...
But the prospect of a Socialist victory has also raised fears that military right-wingers might try to intervene. The danger was given new credence when authorities early this month uncovered a detailed army conspiracy to seize power on the eve of the election. Three artillery colonels have been arrested...
Disclaimers aside, Suarez clearly hopes to play a pivotal role in the next Cortes. Currently, the Socialists hold 119 seats in the 350-member Chamber of Deputies, and they are expected to gain at least another 30 or so in the elections. That would put them within striking distance of...