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...violence in 1968, the ETA has used assassination first to fight the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, then to provoke democratic Spanish authorities into retaliating bloodily and repressing liberties in three of Spain's Basque provinces (see map). The terrorists' plan: to build popular resentment of far-off Madrid and to increase separatist yearnings among the historically disaffected Basques. In the past 13 years the ETA has killed more than 350 victims, carefully choosing as its targets police, army and political figures. One was Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the man Franco had hand-picked as his successor...
Since the failed coup attempt, Spanish civilian politicians, led by Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, have moved far more cautiously in liberalizing one of Western Europe's most monolithic and centralized governments, and Madrid has thrown the national police into a straightforward drive against the terrorists with a good deal of success. So far this year ETA killings are down to 28, about half the 1980 rate. Last week the government announced the arrest of seven alleged ETA members in Vizcaya province and the seizure of substantial quantities of arms and ammunition. In an attempt to rebuild its popularity...
...garde oddities as real innovations have appeared. Overall the record is commendable: the series gave Twyla Tharp, Laura Dean and Senta Driver a widening public acceptance. Says Festival President Charles Reinhart, 50, who took over the A.D.F. in 1969: "For these kids, this is like a bullfighter appearing in Madrid. It's the big time...
...remain the most potent civilian political force in the country. As the ex-President was sped under close guard from a courthouse to her suburban retreat 25 miles outside Buenos Aires, a small crowd of Perónist bystanders chanted her name. Three days later, she arrived in Madrid, and immediately went into seclusion. According to Argentine military authorities, she is free to return to Argentina but is banned from holding public office or making public political statements...
...work from this all-American mannerist's post-Pop years is now on view at the St. Louis Art Museum, titled "Roy Lichtenstein, 1970-1980." The show will be traveling the museum circuit for years, from Seattle to Tokyo via New York, Fort Worth, Cologne, Florence, Paris and Madrid. Organized by Art Historian Jack Cowart, it contains 110 works that together give a good view of the march of Lichtenstein's stylizations...