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...privy council of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the pretender to the Spanish throne, and an Opus Dei priest serves as confessor to Prince Juan Carlos, who is next in line. Moreover, the country's only private university, the Pamplona-based Universidad de Navarra, is an out-and-out Opus Dei institution, and Opus Dei professors are being hired with increasing frequency for chairs in state universities...
...Spain, as elsewhere, most organized Opus Dei activity is directed principally toward youth. The organization operates more than 100 residences and study centers for students and young workers throughout the country. Its Universidad de Navarra, with twelve separate faculties and an enrollment of 5,220, is acknowledged to be Spain's best university by far. Its graduate school of business administration, opened in Barcelona nine years ago in conjunction with Harvard, was the nation's first institution to teach modern management techniques on a graduate level. It operates a trade school in a Madrid working-class district known...
Although the presence of so many high-powered Opus Dei men in the Franco government has led to charges that the organization is pro-Franco, others of its members are in outspoken opposition to the regime. Spanish police last year arrested two Opus Dei professors of the Universidad de Navarra for putting up anti-Franco posters, and Opus Dei students joined a nationwide strike for greater campus freedom. Civil Law Professor Amadeo de Fuenmayor, an Opus Deite, risked his neck by going on record with a scathing attack on Franco's much-publicized religious-liberty law, calling it inadequate...
...paper flags, each bearing the red field and two green crosses of Euzkadi, the homeland of the Basques. Spain's Basque Separatists are once more up to their old habits of derring-do. In recent weeks they have also planted their outlawed flag on a mountaintop in upper Navarra, ingeniously substituted it for the Spanish flag at a civil ceremony in San Sebastián. Police throughout northern Spain, more over, are searching frantically for a hidden Basque radio transmitter that jams government newscasts and broadcasts Separatist propaganda in their stead...
...double microphones, tiny (5 ft. 4 in.) Violinist Ricci grasped his Guarnerius del Gesù fiddle in his short, square hands and produced a tone that was remarkable both for its control and its shading. He was at his best in the Sarasate Habañera and Jota Navarra-music that calls for the sort of flash and fire that have distinguished Ricci throughout his career. His admirers are drawn by the electric tension that sets him apart from two other famous San Francisco-trained prodigies-Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, who are closer to the rhapsodic Russians in their...