Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aranguren, along with the other three professors was detained by the police and asked to make a deposition on the demonstration. Finally, in August, after months of wrangling over his status, Spain's Minister of Education ruled that he and the three others who had marched would not be allowed to teach at any university in Spain for the rest of their lives...
According to Aranguren, the government's claim to have liberalized the rules controlling student behavior is false. All university students in Spain must join the government-affiliated Sindicato Espanol Universitario, or Student's Syndicate. Recently, the government agreed to allow students to elect representatives to the organization; previously they were government-appointed...
Aranguren admitted that economically at least, Spain is making headway. "I am an economic determinist," he said. "Franco has encouraged tourism, foreign investment and the emigration of Spanish workers to other European countries. But I think that the time was right for these things. He doesn't deserve much credit for them...
...almost impossible to be both a political citizen and a moral man," he said. "But Spain has found the worse solution--to suppress both. To renounce politics is to accept the Establishment and become a passive citizen. To renounce ethics is to lose respect for one's own human dignity. Somehow we must reassert these things together...
...doubt that I myself will ever return to the University," he added. But he is free to return to Spain--and devoted most of his speech to what his role must be there...