Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspected that plotters out to restore another right-wing dictatorship were trying to kill him. Authoritarian regimes are no proof against violence. Political terrorists in Spain dynamited a car carrying Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973, killing him, and only painstaking security has permitted General Francisco Franco to reach his 82nd year. Franco always rides in bulletproof cars along unannounced routes at top speed. During his rare public appearances, the security guards sometimes outnumber the audience...
...Franco assassin! Franco assassin!" chanted throngs of demonstrators, marching through the streets of Paris in the French capital's most violent rioting since 1968. In Rome, thousands of protesters swarmed through the downtown area shouting, "Free Spain! Free Spain!" In Brussels, angry mobs fire-bombed the Spanish embassy. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Party announced a resolution of "total condemnation." In Amsterdam, the Dutch government declared a day of "national demonstration," and government ministers joined protest marches. From one end of Europe to the other, anti-Spanish demonstrations flared...
Futile Indignation. It was the biggest and broadest outpouring of indignation that had swept through Western Europe's democracies in many years. In the end, it was futile. The cause of the furor was the determination of General Francisco Franco's regime to carry out the death sentence that had been ordered in the cases of five terrorists, each of whom had been convicted of killing a policeman. Two of the condemned men, Angel Otaegui Echevarria, 33, and Juan Paredes Manot, 21, were members of a Basque separatist organization; the other three, Ramón Garcia Sanz...
...most of Europe saw it, the death sentences suggested a return to the days when the Franco regime virtually ruled by gun and garrote. Until last Friday, when el Caudillo commuted the death sentence of six other terrorists, one of them a pregnant woman, there had been eleven convicts awaiting execution-the most since 1940. All eleven were sentenced under a new anti-terrorist law enacted in July that makes the death penalty automatic for anyone convicted of killing a policeman...
Meanwhile over at Sandy's jazz revival in Beverly, will be Buddy De Franco and his quintet. De Franco is an inventive clarinetist...