Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...male students have said repeatedly they would not charge that they were excluded, although one of them has complained about the "separatist attitude" expressed by several women who said at the first meeting of the course they would not take it if men were enrolled...
...Vitoria crisis was just the newest of many problems besetting Juan Carlos. The four Basque provinces in Spain's north are home to an enduring separatist movement. Similar regional discontent is brewing in Catalonia, where demonstrations last month paralyzed Barcelona on two successive Sundays and hastened the King's planned visit to the area. Apart from regional dissidents, who complain that Juan Carlos is not reforming Spain fast enough, there is mounting pressure on the King from diehard right-wingers who protest that he is moving too fast. The King himself seems to prefer moderate gestures: last week...
...however, will apply to only about half the estimated 2,000 prisoners who are serving sentences or awaiting trial for political offenses. Among those the decree explicitly excluded were 250 or so prisoners who have been charged with crimes of terrorism, propagandizing for terrorism or membership in Communist and separatist groups condemned under the draconian legislation approved last July by the Franco regime. The death penalty will not be imposed upon anyone convicted before Juan Carlos' accession, but that was the only concession that the King made to opposition demands for immediate release of all prisoners arrested under...
What will be the fate of the Basque people now that Franco is no longer head of the Spanish government? The importance of the Basque country to the Spanish economy is undeniable. Bilbao is the "Pittsburgh of Spain"--and the government's long struggle to repress the separatist movement can be expected to continue. However, the tension created by the presence of thirty-thousand paramilitary police in the north has not succeeded in discouraging separatist sentiment but rather has served to fan the flames of disenchantment with the present regime even among the most conservative factions of the Basque leadership...
Within Spain, reaction against the executions was mostly limited to the four Basque provinces in the north. There, a two-day general strike was called to protest the executions of the two terrorists who had been members of a Basque separatist organization (see box page 38). Police had to break up protest marches in half a dozen towns. In Algorta, a suburb of Bilbao, six Basques were injured when the Guardia Civil opened fire on demonstrators...