Word: sebasti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a 34-year exile in France, Sebastián Resales illegally re-enters the Spain of 1973. A veteran of the losing side in the Spanish Civil War, Resales must dodge Franco's police if he hopes to reach his native village to the south, in Andalusia. He has little money and no nostalgia for the scenes of past battles. All Resales possesses is macho dignity and the bitter sense that "he had been robbed of 37 years of his life-his life in the Alpujarras-by some stupid idea, some cause. What a stupidity...
...country's four northern provinces, for example, Arias has been unable to check the terrorism of Basque separatists. After the small secret ETA, the most radical of the Basque groups, recently shot five policemen, the Guardia Civil retaliated by sweeping through the areas around Bilbao and San Sebastián. Madrid admits to the arrest of 200 suspects, but a group of Basque lawyers claims that the number jailed totals 2,000. In the past month the government has also detained and beaten two Catholic priests suspected of aiding the separatists. So explosive has the situation in Basque country...
...tautly organized terrorist group, E.T.A. has been skirmishing with General Francisco Franco's regime for years. Beihl's future, it was made clear, would depend on the fate of 16 E.T.A. guerrillas who went on trial last week in Burgos for the 1968 murder of a San Sebastián police chief and other terrorist activities...