Word: rightist
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...times last week this xenophobia became violent. While Franco addressed the rally, gangs of rightist youths roamed Madrid's streets, roughing up foreigners. Windows were smashed at the posh Castellana Hotel, apparently for no reason other than that the main entrance was flanked by poles flying foreign flags. The U.S., which did not join in the international denunciations, was pointedly spared such treatment. One group of young Franco supporters paused during a march in Madrid's diplomatic quarter to shake hands with the machine-gun-toting Spanish policemen guarding the U.S. embassy...
...writer in the U.S. Catholic press has been a more sulfurous advocate of rightist views in recent years than Jesuit Priest Dan Lyons, 55. He fought the cold war long after most Catholics had thawed. He attacked modernists, the Berrigan brothers and the liberal Catholic press. In 1970, when liberals were agitating for the right to marry and remain priests, he wrote: "The Church decided long ago that the celibate priest is more like Christ...
...horizon of Portugal's present looms Chile's past. The spectre of counterrevolution is forming: Spinola, bearer of rightist hopes, has temporarily left his Brazilian facist friends for Paris, only a train ride away; the exile "Portugese Liberation Army" masses on the Spanish border, funded by Portugese capital and very possibly, by the CIA. Encouraged by the Church's warnings of impending (and factually non-existent) land collectivization, small-holding peasants burn Communist headquarters and attack the revolution's supporters...
...from ordering the seizures--as the American press unanimously reported--the PCP actually opposed them, knowing that they could serve as a pretext for rightist agitation against the Goncalves cabinet. The take-overs were carried out not by Communists or Socialists, but by workers supporting the "extreme left" and a policy of worker's control. Nor did the PCP prevent Republica and Renascenza from being returned to their "legal" owners--this decision was made by General Carvalho, an independent leftist then heading the Lisbon military garrison...
...Vila Nova de Famalicào, a prosperous market town 20 miles north of Oporto, Communists shot at attacking conservative militants, wounding several. Two days later, troops dispatched to protect Communist headquarters there opened fire and killed two people, a 34-year-old rightist militant and a 19-year-old male nurse named Luis Barroso, a member of the centrist Popular Democrats. Furious, hundreds of anti-Communists broke through an infantry cordon and ransacked the building...