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Gold carpeting was hastily installed in the courtroom, and high-backed red velvet chairs were provided for the defendants, lawyers and judges. It was a suit able setting for a momentous trial. In the dock were 32 top-ranking officers and one civilian accused of trying to overthrow the Spanish...
Some skeptics still wonder how far the Eurocommunists are prepared to go. "The crux of the matter is that in no case did the numerous parties tell the Russians to cut it out or they would stop having relations," points out Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research...
Not since the days of Columbus. Cortes and Cartier has America had such allure for fortune seekers from abroad. Throughout the turbulent 1970s more and more Europeans. Japanese and even Arabs looked to the U.S. as a haven of political stability and the world's biggest, most lucrative marketplace...
Faced with these questions, Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotek>last week told the Cortes, the country's parliament, that "we do not know" who was behind the bank raid. Some high officials believe, however, that members of the political underworld are being recruited and trained for terrorist operations with...
Prosecuting the coup leaders will probably change little. Currently, 29 officers are being held on charges of "armed rebellion"; conviction carries a 30-to 40-year sentence. According to leading lawyers in Madrid, however, most will be tried for the lesser crime of disobedience, mainly because they have threatened to...