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...Francisco Franco, Spaniards have discovered that there is a lot more to making their new democracy work than dropping slips of paper into ballot boxes. Last week 946,000 voters in three Basque provinces went to the polls to elect a local parliament; the central government of Premier Adolfo Suárez had calculated that this new assembly might bring stability to the violence-prone region, isolating ETA terrorists, who have already killed twelve officials and claimed scores of bombings so far this year. The government strategy backfired: political parties allied with the ETA, which demands independence for the Basques...
...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...
...week, a steady stream of MiGs and Su-17 attack aircraft arrived at Kabul airport to support the Soviet forces in the countryside. Just five miles east of the capital, resistance was continuing at the Pule-Charkhi army headquarters. Instead of opening the gates of the fort, as the Soviets had ordered them to do, the Afghan troops stationed there had killed their Russian advisers and prepared for a siege. The Soviet forces were reluctant to storm the base, lest this lead to a massacre, but they quickly surrounded it. Their solution was to position 20 tanks, their gun barrels...
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