Word: sued
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Every radio, it seemed, was tuned to the same station. In cafés and shops from Bilbao to Barcelona last week, Spanards listened intently to a heated parlamentary discussion broadcast live from the Cortes. The debate concerned the faltering policies of Conservative Premier Adolfo Suárez. More significantly, for the first time since Generalissimo Francisco Franco's "40 years of silence" came to an end, Spain was experiencing a vigorous public debate by its politicians-and the country reveled...
...political mano a mano pitted Suárez, 47, against Socialist Party Leader Felipe González, 38, who had the temerity to lodge an outright censure motion against a Spanish government for the first time in 44 years. He came far closer to toppling Suárez than even he expected. Although the censure motion was narrowly defeated, by a vote of 166 to 152, the premier was reduced to the support of his own party, the Union of the Democratic Center, by wholesale abstention in the rest of his coalition...
...Basque upset was the latest in a series of political twists that have contributed to a sense of national frustration. With it has come a growing skepticism about the durability of Spain's new democratic institutions. Much of the disappointment and blame has been directed against Suárez's cautious leadership, and a senior government official concedes: "We have lost momentum." The once thriving Spanish economy has slowed painfully. Unemployment, already over 10%, has been swollen by hundreds of thousands of migrant workers forced home by industrial cutbacks elsewhere on the Continent. Fully half a million...
...legislation before the Cortes (parliament) concerning two bitterly divisive issues: legalized divorce and secular education. Both measures are not only anathema to the still powerful Roman Catholic hierarchy, but are also hotly contested by the left, which wants even greater reform. Such controversies point up the paralyzing disunity within Suárez's own Union of the Democratic Center, which is less a political party than a loose coalition of moderates ranging from centrist liberals to former Franco conservatives...
Despite their complaints about Suárez, few politicians believe that the Premier is likely to be unseated soon; all parties agree that another election would not really change the present balance of forces. But Suárez has shown signs of personal frustration. He has tended to withdraw inside Madrid's Moncloa Palace and surround himself with a coterie of protective advisers. An aide even goes so far as to liken his isolation to that of Richard Nixon in the White House...