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...times last week this xenophobia became violent. While Franco addressed the rally, gangs of rightist youths roamed Madrid's streets, roughing up foreigners. Windows were smashed at the posh Castellana Hotel, apparently for no reason other than that the main entrance was flanked by poles flying foreign flags. The U.S., which did not join in the international denunciations, was pointedly spared such treatment. One group of young Franco supporters paused during a march in Madrid's diplomatic quarter to shake hands with the machine-gun-toting Spanish policemen guarding the U.S. embassy...
...event of another Middle East war, and its nuclear submarine base at Rota. These installations, argue American officials, will also give Washington leverage in influencing Spain's transition to the post-Franco era. For Spain, the accord means about $750 million in military and economic aid, plus what Madrid sees as the implication of acceptance that goes with a military arrangement with...
ANGEL YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN. So reads a crude sign on the side of a furniture plant near Nuarbe, a mountainside hamlet deep in Basque country 220 miles northeast of Madrid...
...E.T.A. cell that assassinated Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's last Premier, in Madrid...
Since then, Basque resentment of Madrid has not been merely an emotional reaction to cultural imperialism...