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...black hair took the stage, the crowd clapped and cheered its approval. "After 150 years of govern-ment by the right, we must try to put this country on the march," he declared, stabbing the air in a gesture of challenge. "And that can only be done by the Socialist Party...
...speaker was Socialist Leader Felipe González, 40, the most popular politician in Spain and the overwhelming favorite to win next week's parliamentary elections. That would put him in position to become Spain's first leftist Prime Minister since the end of the civil war in 1939. González's remarkable ascendancy reflects, at least in part, the fact that Spanish democracy has matured in the seven years since the death of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. King Juan Carlos, while not endorsing any party in the campaign, is understood to believe that the country...
...prospect of a Socialist victory has also raised fears that military right-wingers might try to intervene. The danger was given new credence when authorities early this month uncovered a detailed army conspiracy to seize power on the eve of the election. Three artillery colonels have been arrested and held for trial on charges of sedition, and other plotters were placed under house arrest. The two major conspirators convicted for the 1981 coup attempt to seize the Cortes, Lieut. General Jaime Miláns del Bosch and Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Madrid were suspected of involvement in the new plot...
Since he took over the Socialist leadership in 1974, González has built a reputation for moderation. In 1979, for example, he persuaded the party to drop the term Marxist from its platform. He has supported the government on such issues as antiterrorist laws and regional autonomy, and proceeded to mold the party in the pattern of social democratic parties elsewhere in Western Europe. The result has been growing public confidence in the party's ability to govern...
...allegation surfaced last week in Paris, where members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a Muslim socialist party opposed to the Khomeini regime, released photos purporting to be of one such incident. The massacre, said to have occurred last January in Bostan, a town in the southwestern province of Khuzistan, was photographed by Iranian officers sympathetic to the Mujahedin. According to the officers, Islamic Guards assembled a group of Iraqi prisoners in front of pictures of Khomeini and ordered them to chant slogans praising the Ayatullah. Several dozen Iraqis refused. They were led away, and their hands were tied behind their...