Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bespectacled fellow who came out of an apartment building on a crowded Madrid street looked like any businessman caught in the pre-Christmas rush. Then police agents swarmed in and arrested him. Their captive, wearing a gray wig, turned out to be Santiago Carrillo, 62, the exiled head of the still outlawed Spanish Communist Party. Seized with him were seven other party executives who had been meeting in the apartment hideaway...
...overwhelmingly endorsed Premier Adolfo Suarez's political-reform program, it raised new questions about the regime's willingness to broaden participation in Spain's political life. Communist loyalists staged intermittent work stoppages and street demonstrations to protest the arrests, and FREEDOM FOR CARRILLO demands appeared on Madrid walls faster than government workers could clean them off. Protesters rallied in Paris and Rome. Italy's Christian Democratic government, which is dependent on the tacit support of the country's powerful and legal Communist Party, was put upon to express its concern about Carrillo's arrest...
Spanish right-wingers wanted Carrillo tried as a "terrorist" for alleged crimes committed during the Civil War. But Madrid's Court of Public Order decreed that Carrillo and his comrades should be charged with a relatively light offense-violating a law against membership in a party "submitting to an international discipline that proposes to establish a totalitarian system" in Spain. If tried and convicted, the Carabanchel Eight could get as much as six years in prison...
...gesture calculated to force the issue, Carrillo surfaced three weeks ago-just before the referendum on political reform-at a Madrid press conference. Following 37 years in exile, mostly in France, he said, he had slipped back into Spain in February 1976, after he was refused a legal passport-and had crossed the border several times...
...presented with only three choices--"for" Chirac, "against" Chirac, or "abstain." One spectator, questioned by a New York Times reporter about the angry but obedient mood of the Chirac boosters, said, "These people exist in all countries. I've seen them in Wallace crowds, in Strauss crowds, and in Madrid two weeks ago at the rally commemorating Franco...