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...Spaniards have discovered that there is a lot more to making their new democracy work than dropping slips of paper into ballot boxes. Last week 946,000 voters in three Basque provinces went to the polls to elect a local parliament; the central government of Premier Adolfo Suárez had calculated that this new assembly might bring stability to the violence-prone region, isolating ETA terrorists, who have already killed twelve officials and claimed scores of bombings so far this year. The government strategy backfired: political parties allied with the ETA, which demands independence for the Basques...
...Basque upset was the latest in a series of political twists that have contributed to a sense of national frustration. With it has come a growing skepticism about the durability of Spain's new democratic institutions. Much of the disappointment and blame has been directed against Suárez's cautious leadership, and a senior government official concedes: "We have lost momentum." The once thriving Spanish economy has slowed painfully. Unemployment, already over 10%, has been swollen by hundreds of thousands of migrant workers forced home by industrial cutbacks elsewhere on the Continent. Fully half a million...
Alternating with Carter's planning sessions came a series of actions designed to start mobilizing the nation and its friends in the face of the Soviet threat. Early in the week Carter played host to Spanish Premier Adolfo Suârez at a 90-minute working lunch in the Cabinet Room. The Spanish leader had flown to Washington specifically to demonstrate support of the U.S. during the Iranian and Afghan crises. On Wednesday, Carter huddled for half an hour with Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak and examined the possibilities of regional cooperation to restrain possible Soviet advances in the Middle East...
DIED. Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, 75, former energy czar of Venezuela and chief architect of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Pérez Alfonzo helped form the Accion Democratica party in 1941, became Minister of Mines on its rise to power four years later. He sought to organize a union of oil-producing nations, a goal realized in 1960; and to nationalize Venezuelan oil, which was done in 1976. In recent years he admitted that as "the father of OPEC, I sometimes feel like renouncing my offspring...
...matador with a record of more than 2,000 bulls and an unforgettable style of frog jumps and other moves that brought the bulls-and the people-to their knees? In 1972, with no more whirls to conquer, El Cordobés, a.k.a. Manuel Benítez Pérez, retired as a millionaire to a cattle and pig farm. But the quiet palled, and, after testing the ring and his reflexes in a benefit performance last year, El Cordobés decided to retire from retirement. Last week's fight at Benidorm, in which he was awarded five...