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...third in a grisly series of spectacular political killings that have tainted the nation-saving image won by Argentina's military junta in their virtually bloodless ouster of the incompetent Isabel Peron last March. Three weeks ago, two former Uruguayan legislators, Zelmar Michelini and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, were seized in separate commando-style raids. Their bodies were found four days later in an abandoned car, together with the corpses of two other Uruguayans who had earlier been involved with the Tupamaro guerrillas...
...military authorities have found it both embarrassing and difficult to account for the killings-and not only because the murderers have not been found. In the case of Gutierrez Ruiz, for example, the police did not intervene even though the kidnapers remained in his apartment-located just blocks from three heavily guarded embassies-for more than an hour. Even after the case made headlines, no one bothered to visit the apartment for fingerprints. When Gutierrez Ruiz's wife tried to file a kidnaping complaint with the police, she was not allowed to file for anything more serious than...
...that the Communist Party-which might command only 10% of the votes-should be legalized, although the government argues that it is "too soon." "This 'constitutional reform' is nothing more than a cynical joke," says a Madrid-based member of the 126-person Communist Central Committee. Joaquin Ruiz-Gimenez, a distinguished constitutional lawyer, complains that the government is simply handing down reforms without letting other parties participate in the process. Yet even this, he does admit, is a beginning...
...subtle understanding of the conflicting currents. The stream of ministerial cars passing through the gates of Zarzuela Palace, his residence northwest of Madrid, indicates that the King has clout where it counts. Significantly, Juan Carlos is using that clout to receive not only ministers but opposition leaders like Ruiz-Gimenez and 35-year-old Socialist Leader Felipe Gonzalez, who have not been heard before...
JOAQUÍN RUIZ GIMÉNEZ, 62, a law professor and a former reformist Minister of Education in the 1950s who now heads the still illegal Christian Democratic Party and, despite his relative conservatism, is respected and trusted by the entire democratic opposition and the Spanish Communist Party (P.C.E...