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Even Communist Party Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo called it "a step toward national reconciliation." Social Democratic Leader Antonio Garcia López went further. He described it as "the first dramatic step toward dismantling the dictatorship." Both men were referring to King Juan Carlos' decree granting amnesty to political prisoners in Spain, which was formally promulgated in Madrid last week. Although less sweeping than leftists and moderates had hoped, the decree could affect more than half of the 1,600 Spaniards who have been imprisoned for political crimes or have otherwise been penalized for illegal, quasi-political acts...
...failings of political intention or of opinion." Chief among these are scores of imprisoned Spanish Communists, whose party is still illegal despite a recent thaw in relations between the government and the democratic opposition. Among the first to be released were Simón Sánchez Montero and Santiago Alvarez, two leading officials in the party hierarchy who were jailed earlier this year...
Clearly, the "indestructible monolithic unity" of the international Communist movement-once the theme of such meetings-had been eroded to the thinnest, hardly visible varnish. Boldly summing up the sentiments of most of the Western party leaders, Spain's Santiago Carrillo declared that "there can be no doubt that we Communists today have no center of leadership and are not bound by any international discipline...
Spain's stocky Santiago Carrillo argued that the Communist movement was no longer a "church" with "its own martyrs and prophets," and believers who celebrate the Russian Revolution "like Christmas." Referring obliquely to repressive Soviet and East European regimes, he called for transforming Spain into a democracy without "dictatorial methods, recognizing political and ideological pluralism and with full respect paid to the result of general elections." The publication of Carrillo's speech in the East German party newspaper prompted a local television technician to remark: "That's the best thing I've read in Neues Deutschland...
...included stops in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, where the Secretary tried to resolve the nagging problem of Americans serving prison terms for drug offenses. The voyage proved that in certain parts of the continent Kissinger is still a diplomatic superstar, the ultimate magical mystery tourist. In Santiago, more than 3,000 cheering Chileans gathered outside the Hotel Carrera simply to catch a glimpse of the Secretary before he emerged to drive off to the OAS meeting. In Santa Cruz, a huge crowd mobbed his car when he drove to place a floral wreath at the monument of Bolivia...