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...several grisly episodes in a savage spasm of violence in Spain last week, the worst in recent memory. It claimed a total of ten lives, including those of three policemen who were shot down by unidentified gunmen in working-class suburbs of Madrid. A purportedly leftist terrorist group called GRAPO (an acronym in Spanish for Oct. 1 Antifascist Resistance Groups) claimed responsibility for the police killings, but the initial bloody attacks of the week, including that against the Communist lawyers, were evidently the work of right-wing extremists. Said one Western analyst in Madrid: "The ultras on the right want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: A New Visit from the Old Demons | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

Billed as "The Great Grape Debate," last night's confrontation in Sanders Theatre between Larson and Marcos Munos, leader of the East Coast grape boycott, degenerated into the "Grapo Group Grope" as both sides promised not to slip into personal insults and then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grape Talk Turns Sour | 3/19/1970 | See Source »

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