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...night of Franco's tyranny was indeed over. With joy and assurance they voted in Premier Adolfo Suárez, rejecting the extremes of both right and left. In our cover story this week, we examine the nation's emotional yet orderly transition from dictatorship to democracy. Madrid Correspondent Karsten Prager was struck by Spain's ability to emerge so smoothly from a political vacuum. "There are not many parallels," says Prager, "even though the political changes of the past 18 months might have gone deeper, and even though reform was not so much negotiated as conceded...
...spectacle the likes of which most Spaniards had never seen. Only hours after the official opening of the country's first election campaign in 41 years, half a million political posters bloomed along the narrow streets and broad thoroughfares of Madrid. For the first time ever, politicians of all stripes, including the long-outlawed Communists, made campaign appearances last week over the air waves of the state-run television network, which had been created as an instrument of the Franco dictatorship. Across the country, nearly 6,000 candidates, vying for 557 parliamentary seats in the June 15 national election...
Though extremists were attempting to disrupt the election-in Barcelona two civil guards were killed and a Madrid power station was bombed-campaign violence was not widespread. On the whole, the 22 million Spaniards who are eligible to vote on June 15 seemed surprisingly calm. Many appeared more bewildered than enthusiastic about the rituals of democracy -early polls showed 25% of the voters undecided. That was not all bad. Given the passions of the past and the dangers of polarization, one foreign diplomat observed, "Spain probably does not need an emotional campaign...
...achieve a Rhodesian settlement, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was prepared to settle for majority rule in Rhodesia and Namibia, and worry about South Africa later; Carter believes all three must move together. Even as Mondale was heading for Vienna last week, after making diplomatic stops in Lisbon and Madrid, the President said in a television interview in Los Angeles that the U.S. was doing "everything we can" to persuade Vorster to end apartheid...
Bloody Siege. The Spain she returns to bears slight resemblance to the one she fled in 1939 when General Francisco Franco's forces overran the Spanish capital. During the bloody siege of Madrid, she admonished housewives to prepare boiling oil to throw at the invaders, and organized a women's brigade that fought alongside the men at the battlefront. "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees," she shouted. 'They shall not pass!" It quickly became the Loyalists' rallying...