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...sudden crackdown on opposition to the new regime, the Spanish police arrested nearly 300 political dissidents yesterday, including the recently freed leftist labor leader. Marcelino Camacho...
...transfer of power in a dictatorship is seldom smooth. Yet it is probable that Juan Carlos' authority will not be challenged immediately. "Although many people in the opposition will not accept him because of his close association with Franco," observed Centrist Politician Marcelino Oreja, "most Spaniards want to give him a chance." No one knows for certain, however, whether Juan Carlos has the courage to break with the "bunker"-the group of hardline rightists who were Franco's most loyal backers and can be expected to oppose any realistic political reforms...
...that permits the regime to jail people for up to eight years for the vague crime of "sabotaging decolonization." There is uncertainty over the policies that will be followed by Frelimo's top men-notably Samora Machel, 42, the Peking-oriented commander in chief, and his deputy, Marcelino dos Santos, 44, who is said to lean toward Moscow...
...determination not to see white settler interests sold down the river in the territories. However it was meant, liberation-movement leaders at the annual meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia, of the Organization of African Unity-composed of 42 African states-read neocolonialism into every word. Declared Frelimo Vice President Marcelino dos Santos: "Our attacks will be maintained and even increased until independence is conceded under the sole leadership of Frelimo." At week's end, talks with Guinean liberation leaders, which had been transferred from London to Algiers, were broken off as the two sides were "about to sign an agreement...
None of Morín's men suspected that they had done wrong. Marcelino Jiménez, 22, hiked for five days to a police outpost when he heard the authorities were looking for him. "If I had known that killing Indians was a crime, I would not have wasted all that time walking just so they could lock me up," he explained during the trial. The cowboys cooperated fully with the investigating magistrate, helpfully supplying every detail of the massacre. "All I did was kill the little Indian girl and finish off two who were more dead than...