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...devaluation could also do harm in Mexico. Prices of the $6.6 billion worth of consumer and capital goods that Mexico imports will rise sharply in peso terms. In the wake of Beteta's announcement, many sales clerks worked until midnight changing the price tags on merchandise. At the Puerta de Liverpool department store, for example, refrigerators went up 20% overnight, color TV sets more than 30%. To ease the burden, Echeverría has already promised raises for workers, civil servants and pensioners-a generous but inflationary move...
Over the past 26 years, Francisco Franco's broadcast to his nation has become as much a part of Spanish year-end tradition as eating grapes in rhythm to the strokes of midnight in Madrid's Puerta del Sol. Last week the speech carried special interest. Many Spaniards hoped that Franco, now age 73, would indicate his answer to Spain's biggest question: After Franco, what...
Last week, together with five of his colleagues. Monarchist Satrústegui was hauled off to Madrid's Puerta del Sol police headquarters to explain himself. Released after two hours' questioning, Satrústegui emerged exultant. "The government is now weak," he said. "It cannot arrest me without doing great harm to itself." Satrústegui's remarks strongly suggested that the regime of Spain's 66-year-old Caudillo (leader) was in trouble-more trouble than usual. To some degree...
...noon the battle flowed into the center of Madrid. Students and Falangists, charging through the crowded Puerta del 501 and into the Calle de Alcalá, where Falange headquarters and the Education Ministry stand almost side by side, were sprayed by police with water-pumping jeeps. By that time some 2,000 law-school students had been joined by 1,000 allies from the medical school. Between bloody, skull-busting fights, Falangists chanted, "Down with capitalism!" and "Down with the monarchy!" (assuming the students to be supporters of both), and sang an antimonarchist hymn which begins...
Then police got their orders. Mounted cops charged the crowd; pistols were fired over heads. By nightfall, more than 100 men lay in Puerta del Sol's damp cells...