Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain's Vice President These statements recently electrified Spam, where protest is still a tentative testing affair. The speakers, representing the church and the armed forces earned the force of two powerful arms of the political triad that has supported the rule of Generalissimo Francisco Franco for 32 years (the third being the aristocracy). One man is a usually conservative cleric, pleading with the government to be more liberal; the other is the officer who administers Spain on a day-to-day basis, warning the country against liberalism. Both addressed themselves to the same phenomenon: the mood of questioning...
Though the country's spreading sense of unease began long before De Gaulle's present troubles, and goes to the very core of Spain's Establishment, the upheaval in France has served to sharpen and intensify it. Spain has never been exactly a contented country-it has always had too many inequities, too much passion for that- but at no time in recent history has it been beset by such a sense of frustration...
Modern Hero. The frustration is felt t almost every level of Spanish life and has taken particularly deep root among Spain's 12 million workers, whose labor syndicates are creatures of Franco's government and easily bend to its will. In hopes of lobbying for labor gains, Spain's workers have boldly launched a grass-roots organization of their own as a rival to the syndicates. Called the Workers' Commissions movement, it has spread rapidly iow has chapters in factories all over Spain; it has also reached some white-collar employees, such as bank clerks...
Loss of Confidence. Adding to the rising unease is a slack in the four-year economic boom that, beginning in 1962, thrust Spain into the 20th century world of rapidly rising industrial wages new cars and washing machines, The lull has created unemployment and put a brake on wage increases. Above , it has cost the government the confidence of many businessmen who had always staunchly supported Franco. The government gives the impression of not knowing quite what to do about either the economy or the popular unrest, and this impression is strengthened by the fact that Franco seems to spend...
Children's Crusade. Worldwide, this has been the year of student power. Taking to the streets to engage in bloody combat with police, students triggered a crisis for the Fifth Republic in France, contributed to the liberalization of Czechoslovakia, challenged the authoritarianism of Spain, and assailed the sluggish social institutions of West Germany. At home, the spontaneous "children's crusade" of college kids was largely responsible for making Senator Eugene McCarthy into a serious candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination...