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The demonstrations that first flared up across Europe continued into last week, often turning violent. Mobs besieged embassies and consulates in about a dozen cities. Flames gutted Spain's mission in Lisbon; a bomb exploded in the garden of the embassy in Ankara. In Rome and Milan, angry mobs...
Within Spain, reaction against the executions was mostly limited to the four Basque provinces in the north. There, a two-day general strike was called to protest the executions of the two terrorists who had been members of a Basque separatist organization (see box page 38). Police had to break...
"Franco assassin! Franco assassin!" chanted throngs of demonstrators, marching through the streets of Paris in the French capital's most violent rioting since 1968. In Rome, thousands of protesters swarmed through the downtown area shouting, "Free Spain! Free Spain!" In Brussels, angry mobs fire-bombed the Spanish embassy. In...
Aside from a white students' boycott last Thursday, with attendance back up on Friday because of the weekend football game, these mothers' marches have been the only formal protests in Charlestown. And the cries of Pat Russell, president of Powder Keg, an anti-busing group, "Remember, a mother's power...
For the present, Charlestown protests do not seem to have much political awareness about them. In fact the most visible protests have been a series of Mother's Marches, in which women and girls often with babies in strollers, walk two by two chanting repeatedly the Lord's Prayer and...