Word: oviedo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Antonio Aranda Mata is still honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment...
...have been too strong. Item: Aranda is not considered the leading monarchist in Spain. But Aranda has shown in the past that he is willing to take risks for his political convictions. If the divided opposition parties should be able to reach a working agreement, the hero of Oviedo might emerge as the key figure in Spain...