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...since Francisco Franco's death last November had the new regime of King Juan Carlos faced a grimmer spectacle of unrest than it did last week. The northern Basque province of Alava was in a vicious, rebellious mood. The provincial capital of Vitoria was completely shut down, and the industrial city's 180,000 inhabitants seethed with bitterness. Riot police sent in by the national government had shot dead three young demonstrators outside one of Vitoria's churches; at least 100 more citizens were wounded in the melee...
...often secured by military coup, have established heavily collectivized economies, made torture, censorship, and political oppression a part of everyday life, and virtually banished democracy and respect for individual rights. One result of this has been failing economies crushed under the weight of totalitarian socialism. Another has been political unrest generated by economic disaster and political oppression. To quell this unrest and draw attention away from their own failures, third world dictators have sought to cast Americans as the source of all third world woes. By far, the most important example of this is the claim that Americans consume...
Drafting Workers. The political ferment in Spain has been intensified by growing labor unrest. Some 250,000 workers in the banking, construction and metalworking industries have walked off their jobs to protest low wages. When postal and rail workers threatened to do the same, the government responded by drafting the workers into the army, thereby making any refusal to work punishable by court-martial. The danger in the government's hard-line policies is that the dissatisfied workers, deprived of any peaceful means to make changes, will eventually resort to violence. Arias' reform program contained not a single...
...subway strike was the most dramatic example so far of the growing militancy of Spanish labor since the death of Francisco Franco in November. And labor unrest is compounding the economic woes the new King and his government have inherited from the dictator. After spectacular gains in the 1960s and early '70s, Spain's economy is now afflicted by a 15% inflation rate and rising unemployment. To bring about a recovery, the new government must walk a wobbly tightrope between the forces of left and right...
Part of the trouble came about because Franco in his last years did not live up to his parsimonious image. Eager to avoid social unrest, the dictator's economic counselors allowed officially sanctioned unions (sindicatos) to win wage increases-30% in 1974 and 28% in 1975-that far exceeded government guidelines. Spain's new Finance Minister, Juan Miguel Villar Mir, recently confessed to the Spanish Parliament, "In 1975 we created our inflation entirely by ourselves...