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...increasingly helpless in the face of Spain's mounting problems. In the country's four northern provinces, for example, Arias has been unable to check the terrorism of Basque separatists. After the small secret ETA, the most radical of the Basque groups, recently shot five policemen, the Guardia Civil retaliated by sweeping through the areas around Bilbao and San Sebastián. Madrid admits to the arrest of 200 suspects, but a group of Basque lawyers claims that the number jailed totals 2,000. In the past month the government has also detained and beaten two Catholic priests...
...immediate cause was a strike by the Guardia Civil, Peru's 22,000-man paramilitary police force. The whole force walked off the job after the government offered a wage increase of $8 a month instead of the $40 that the cops had asked for. Most units returned to work when ordered to do so, but the 1,200-man radio-patrol force based in downtown Lima held out. The police locked themselves inside the Victoria barracks and refused to leave. Instead of taking the sensible precaution of sending soldiers to protect the city from unrest, Velasco issued ultimatum...
...more extreme example comes from the village of La Guardia, 20 miles east of Toledo, which every year celebrates a ten-day festival honoring the Niňo (boy) of La Guardia. The festival grew out of a charge that in 1488. local Jews had murdered an unnamed boy. who, says Sister Despina, also never existed. A trial ordered by Grand Inquisitor Torquemada resulted in the execution of some ten to 20 Jews. It was also part of the anti-Semitic campaign that led to the 1492 expulsion of all Jews from...
...press, the people and local politicians idolized Moses. It was not until 1945, after he left office, that Mayor La Guardia remarked on how much dangerous power Moses had acquired. He pointed out the vehicle too: appointive office in quasi-public institutions that were financed by bond issues and administered under special charters, beyond the reach of elected officials or the public. Moses' Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority was the mightiest. After all, "the best bill drafter in Albany" had rewritten the charter-and on his own behalf. Like most such authorities, Triborough was closed to public scrutiny. Unlike...
...book took seven years to research and write and required interviews with 522 people. Caro also spent hundreds of hours reading papers left by Al Smith, Suffolk County Boss W. Kingsland Macy, La Guardia and others...