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Dictator Francisco Franco insists that Spain's current wave of unrest is a minor matter largely trumped up by the foreign press. Giving the lie to his own pronouncement, Franco's Cabinet last week decided that things were at least serious enough to suspend the article of the Spanish bill of rights that permits citizens to move freely around their own country...
...Concern about governmental attitudes. The investigation of the Securities and Exchange Commission caused unrest in the business community. And there has been widespread concern about antitrust action, although, Eckstein said. "Kennedy has probably done less on this than Eisenhower...
From the start, however, labor unions and the Labor Party have bitterly opposed the Pay Pause as an "inequitable" policy that made no attempt to apply similar restraints, such as a capital gains tax, to employers. Labor unrest mounted so sharply that strikes cost British industry more man-hours (more than 4,000,000) in the first quarter of 1962 than in all of 1961 or 1960. Biggest test for the government came last month, when dock workers at Britain's 25 ports demanded a considerably fattened pay package. The dockers are members of the country's biggest...
...return of the Bourbons to Spain. But absent was the commoner who alone could decide whether Juan Carlos would ever take the Spanish throne: Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Far from the hoopla in Athens, El Caudillo was in Spain last week dealing with the most serious unrest to beset his 24-year rule...
...determination of the strikers served to strip away Spain's normal political apathy. Intellectuals in Madrid issued a manifesto protesting the government's news blackout of the strike; ridiculing the official explanation that the unrest was fomented by the Communists, they declared: "Nothing is said of the real social situation that caused the strikes." Admitted one of the signers: "This won't have any effect. But it gives us a little exercise in civic duties." At the University of Madrid, student riots about the mounting influence in education of Opus Dei, a powerful Roman Catholic lay order...