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Thus did political violence return to Spain last week at a critical moment for the country's beleaguered young democracy. Ever since an abortive military coup last February, the army and the government have coexisted in an uneasy truce. Last week's attacks clearly seemed to be aimed at undermining that shaky stability. The targets were exclusively military-men and police officers, and their funerals attracted hundreds of right-wing demonstrators who angrily denounced the government and called for the army to seize power...
...week's end the weak Lebanese security forces took up truce-keeping duties in Zahle. But both sides were already building up their reinforcements with a vengeance. The betting was that it would be only an interlude, too brief, as always before another bloody siege...
...memorial truce...
...leftist guerrilla group took credit for the embassy strike. "Operation Oscar Arnulfo Romero," it announced, had been mounted to honor the memory of the Archbishop of San Salvador who was assassinated a year ago by a presumed right-wing terrorist. The embassy assault followed a 24-hour truce, also called by the guerrillas to commemorate the prelate's death. The cease-fire was generally observed by government forces, but not by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. The morning after the truce, the bodies of 38 victims were found in and around the capital...
...assault marked the first use of force by police since Poland's labor troubles began last July-and the first serious breakdown in the tenuous recent truce between the government and Solidarity. The nation's workers reacted angrily. Lech Walesa and other Solidarity leaders, who had been trying to stave off strikes and work stoppages elsewhere, rushed to Bydgoszcz to comfort the injured and demand retribution against the police. Addressing an overflow meeting of outraged unionists, Walesa alternately stirred his listeners with attacks on the Communist apparatus and urged them not to react too rashly. "Those bandits...