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Right-wing 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...
...that the temporary emergency is taking on a distinctly permanent look, the C.P.I, has had some second thoughts. Its leaders are concerned about Mrs. Gandhi's seemingly rightist economic policies-her concessions to private industry, abolition of compulsory bonus payments for workers and curbs on union activity. The C.P.I, is also uneasy about the growing influence of Mrs. Gandhi's ambitious son, Sanjay, 30-he is currently using the youth wing of the party as a power base-whose politics seem pragmatic and even downright antiCommunist. In a lightly veiled reference to Sanjay's following, the C.P.I...
...prospective coup by radicals and succeeded Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whose death at 82 posed the classic problem of power transfer in a totalitarian nation. In the Middle East, Syrian President Hafez Assad gained new stature by forcibly bringing to a halt the civil war in Lebanon involving rightist Christians, left-wing Moslems, and their Palestinian allies. Seriously set back, and at least temporarily under control of Arab moderates, the Palestine Liberation Organization seemed more amenable to making compromises at a new Geneva conference to end the age-old feuds between Arab...
Fearful of a rightist backlash and possible violence on referendum day. Suárez canceled a last-minute campaign trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a 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...
...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...