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...midweek every Western European government save Ireland had recalled its ambassador from Madrid or kept him at home for "consultations"-gestures of protest against the executions. In Brussels, the Common Market's governing Commission dealt Spain what one official termed "the strongest political rebuff" ever given by the EEC; it recommended suspension of negotiations that had been under way since mid-1973 for a new preferential trade agreement between Spain and the Market. The impact of the EEC's move could be painful, as the nine Common Market members buy nearly half of all Spanish exports...
...midweek most of the city's 1,700 firemen also struck, demanding the same increase in pay as the policemen. (The city's legislative body, the eleven-member county board of supervisors, had voted to halve the proposed increases for both groups to 6.5%, which would have increased annual salaries from $16,644 to $17,724, instead of to the $18,816 for which the uniformed officers were asking.) Police and firemen both argued that some city street cleaners, plumbers and carpenters make as much as $400 more per month than do policemen and firemen...
Meanwhile, Premier Gonçalves was apparently struggling to assemble a new Cabinet-the fifth since the coup. Al though President Costa Gomes announced at midweek that "a new government has been formed," its composition had not been revealed by week's end. Observers in Lisbon therefore concluded that Gonçalves was having great difficulty in persuading any civilians, except Communists and radical leftists, to serve in a Cabinet that would wield little real power, would be dominated by the military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats...
...metric tons. That is still within the 10 million tons that Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz figures the U.S. can sell with only a minimal impact on domestic prices. But continuing drought in the U.S.S.R. is raising worries that the Soviets might later seek to buy huge additional quantities; at midweek the Agriculture Department lowered its previous estimate of the Soviet grain crop by 10 million tons, to 185 million. Butz now believes that the Soviets could eventually be in the market for 19 million tons-an amount equal to the 1972 purchases, which would raise prices of cereals, bakery products...
...revolt came from Members of Parliament, who have forgone a pay raise since 1971 to set an example for the rest of the country. The M.P.s get about ?5,000 ($11,000) in pay and allowances. Some are so hard-pressed that important votes must be scheduled in midweek because Members cannot afford to stay even in cheap London lodgings for more than three nights a week. A widely leaked government report recently recommended that M.P.s receive a 40% raise of ?2,000 ($4,400) and possibly more. After Healey's announcement, 70 Labor backbenchers, fearful that they would...