Word: falangist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue to be selected by the government...
Civil Process. Politically, too, Spain is better off. The political prisons of the civil war have long since been emptied, the fascist fanatics of the old Falangist Party long since suppressed. Police no longer torture political suspects. The old military kangaroo courts have given way to civil process. Censorship has been somewhat relaxed, and editors have been encouraged to discuss subjects unthinkable a decade ago: two papers last year were allowed to call for a legal opposition party, and a slick magazine published an interview with a film director attacking censorship itself...
...provisions on television. And, unlike the rubber-stamp parliaments of old, this year's session gave the bill a thorough going-over. For six weeks the bill was before a study committee, was then passed on to the Justice Committee, which reworded it. One old-guard Falangist, charging that the bill was "unconstitutional," tried to get it thrown out. Fifteen other legislators wanted to tack on amendments that would strengthen workers' rights even more. And, when the measure finally reached the floor, 35 members actually voted against it-because they thought it did not go far enough...
...exhibition at the Spanish pavilion at the New York World's Fair. The event was noteworthy in more ways than one. Twelve years after that April evening in Madrid, Lorca had been taken outside the small Spanish village of Fuentevaqueros, where he was born, and shot by a Falangist firing squad. To this day, there has been no official explanation of why he was shot: he had engaged in no revolutionary politics. But the poet quickly became a symbol for the massacre of innocents. For twelve years publication of his name was forbidden in Spain; not until...
...when Madrid University students called a demonstration march to demand freedom from their state-controlled syndicate, police and Falangist goons beat the marchers senseless, one student was shot, hundreds more arrested, and Franco fired his Education Minister for laxity. Last week the students finally got what they wanted. To end a three-month series of strikes and demonstrations, the regime published a decree allowing them to organize independent student unions of their own. No blood was spilled, and there were no mass arrests. The Falangist press even welcomed the new unions as "something we always wanted and never could...