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While the military sulks, the voters look left to Gonz...
...speaker was Socialist Leader Felipe González, 40, the most popular politician in Spain and the overwhelming favorite to win next week's parliamentary elections. That would put him in position to become Spain's first leftist Prime Minister since the end of the civil war in 1939. González's remarkable ascendancy reflects, at least in part, the fact that Spanish democracy has matured in the seven years since the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. King Juan Carlos, while not endorsing any party in the campaign, is understood to believe that the country...
...seize the Cortes, Lieut. General Jaime Miláns del Bosch and Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Madrid were suspected of involvement in the new plot and swiftly transferred to different prisons. The country reacted calmly, but the aborted coup injected a new factor of suspense into the campaign. Said González last week: "We have all spent years trying to re-create a civilized Spain, a dignified Spain, a Spain with pride in democracy and liberty, and those 5% who don't want that do not belong in our system...
Since he took over the Socialist leadership in 1974, González has built a reputation for moderation. In 1979, for example, he persuaded the party to drop the term Marxist from its platform. He has supported the government on such issues as antiterrorist laws and regional autonomy, and proceeded to mold the party in the pattern of social democratic parties elsewhere in Western Europe. The result has been growing public confidence in the party's ability to govern...
...enlisted men said in their confessions that López Sibrian told them: "Look, inside the hotel is Viera and two other fair-skinned men. You are going to kill them." Soon after, López Sibrian handed Gómez González a 9-mm Ingram submachine gun. Meanwhile another officer, Captain Eduardo Avila, slapped a .45-cal. submachine gun, equipped with a silencer, in Valle Acevedo's hands...