Word: oriole
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...major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol's kidnaping, still unsolved, was claimed by GRAPO, which is demanding amnesty for the remaining political prisoners in return for Oriol's freedom. Sure enough, GRAPO also identified itself as the grabber of Villaescusa...
...extremists, however, evidently had no such qualms. In a phone call to a Spanish news agency, a member of yet another extremist group, the ultra-rightist Apostolic Anti-Communist Alliance of Spain, better known as "the Triple A," boastfully admitted carrying out the murders of the Communist lawyers. If Oriol and Villaescusa were executed by their captors, he warned, a "night of the long knives" would follow...
...victory was doubly impressive, since the referendum came four days after the kidnaping of Antonìo Maria Orìol y Urquijo, 63, an influential Basque financier who, as chief of the Council of State, is Spain's fourth-ranking official. Oriol was taken from his downtown Madrid office by gunmen from a leftist organization known as G.R.A.P.O. (First of October Anti-Fascist Resistance Group), who at first demanded the release of 15, then all political prisoners from Spanish jails...
...dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the terrorists. Suárez's Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa said that the government could not accept "blackmail and coercion" and had tried every channel of "worthy and humanitarian" solution to the kidnaping. If Oriol is killed. Villa vowed, his kidnapers will be hunted down...
...Areas. For the moment, Oriol's abduction eclipsed the law that the voters approved last week. Under it the legislature will consist of a 350-member lower house, elected by proportional representation, and an upper house of 248 seats, 207 elected by majority from Spain's provinces, the balance appointed by King Juan Carlos. Critics charge that the bill is vague in some key areas and could give old guard conservatives decisive advantages in the coming elections. It also grants substantial, perhaps necessary, power to Juan Carlos, and leaves the rightist-dominated Council of the Realm untouched...