Word: cortese
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In many ways it might have recalled the stark menace of a Goya tableau. The Deputies in Spain's 350-seat lower house were halfway through their vote on a new government when the heavy rococo doors of the Cortes, the country's parliament in the center of...
In the first seconds of the assault, some Deputies took the invaders for Basque terrorists. That notion was soon dispelled when they recognized the group's mustachioed leader, a burly officer wearing the shiny three-cornered hat and green uniform of the paramilitary Civil Guards. He was Lieut. Colonel...
Thus began an 18-hour ordeal that confronted Spain's struggling young democratic regime with its most serious challenge since the death in 1975 of Dictator Francisco Franco. Never in postwar memory had the democratically elected parliament of any Western nation been subjected to such an outrage. To many...
It was a prudent but far from memorable beginning for Calvo-Sotelo. A successful engineer-businessman from one of Spain's most prominent political families -the assassination of an uncle in 1936 helped spark the Spanish Civil War-he was most recently Suárez's deputy prime...
Given the tense atmosphere, it was no surprise that Calvo-Sotelo carefully skirted the big issues in his Cortes speech. He pledged that his government would "guarantee the rights of people held in detention," but gave no indication of what he planned to do about the Arregui case. He spoke...