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Last Gasp. The DeCrow group, which took 25 of 34 NOW offices in the October elections, regards Womansurge as a splinter faction of aging professional women willing to accept token advances and avoid new issues. "It's the last gasp of a very small group with a condescending view of what feminism is like," says DeCrow. "If you mention you want to change the behavior of men or if you mention gay rights, they're frightened away...
...Europe. They condemned the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and last year criticized the Portuguese Communists for their lack of commitment to democracy. This hostility to authoritarianism was reflected in the outcome of the party's power struggle while in exile. The fight was won by the Paris faction supporting the moderate Santiago Carrillo over a Moscow-based group favoring Lister, the venerable Spanish Civil War stonecutter-general...
...SENSE, the "moderates" want the same thing as the bunker: both groups seek to insure a stable Spain after Franco by different means. The two factions are caught on opposite sides of a double-bind. The bunker wants to maintain discipline through immediate repression, but risks arousing opposition strong enough to topple the Franco state. The aperture prefers opening the system to certain political groups, while excluding others. In this way, they hope to limit democratic impulses, but may precipitate a powerful shift leftwards once any opposition is legalized. Each faction sees the dangers in the other's plans...
...split in the ruling elite coupled with the disaffection of the middle classes and the army leave slim possibilities for a smooth transition to stability under a Western-style political system. Whichever faction controls the government in the next few weeks, these conflicts will undermine any compromise and will propel the situation leftward. Though in the short run Juan Carlos and his rightist puppeteers have the initiative, in the long run the future of Spain depends on the actions of the left...
...military assassination attempts (one at his 42nd birthday party in 1971, when 98 guests were killed, and one a year later, when his official jet was strafed). The autocratic Hassan, who claims descent from the Prophet Mohammed, owes his survival to his skill at playing off one Moroccan faction against the other and rallying support through emotional appeals to the religious fervor of his 17 million subjects. The popular success of the march is a case in point...