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...What is essential is that all efforts should not be contrary to Camp David, nor support Camp David, but be alongside Camp David." So said Italian Premier Francesco Cossiga last week moments after the European Community summit in Venice had unveiled one of the most assertive initiatives that Europe as a whole has undertaken in years. It was no less than a major diplomatic effort to bring its own political force to bear on the search for peace in the Middle East, and to get the long-ostracized Palestine Liberation Organization into the peace process...
Every radio, it seemed, was tuned to the same station. In cafés and shops from Bilbao to Barcelona last week, Spanards listened intently to a heated parlamentary discussion broadcast live from the Cortes. The debate concerned the faltering policies of Conservative Premier Adolfo Suárez. More significantly, for the first time since Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "40 years of silence" came to an end, Spain was experiencing a vigorous public debate by its politicians-and the country reveled...
...temerity to lodge an outright censure motion against a Spanish government for the first time in 44 years. He came far closer to toppling Suárez than even he expected. Although the censure motion was narrowly defeated, by a vote of 166 to 152, the premier was reduced to the support of his own party, the Union of the Democratic Center, by wholesale abstention in the rest of his coalition...
...correct. In one stroke, González had proposed to sweep Spain's leftist ideology into the past and allay conservative fears of a renewed bloody confrontation with the Socialists. Editorialized Spain's leading news paper, El Pais: "This is the speech of a candidate for Premier...
Suddenly Suárez found himself no longer the only credible Spanish leader of national caliber. Shaken by the attack, he fell back on the defensive, urging "change without risk, which is the only way to reconcile authority with liberty." As the debates ended with a diminished mandate for Premier Suárez, a newly self-confident nation took satisfaction in having passed another political test. One result of the corrida was clear: Spanish democracy had demonstrated its vitality and resilience...