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Identical Abduction. Exacerbating the climate of crisis was another shock the same day: Lieut. General Emilio Villaescusa Quilis, 64, head of the special military tribunal that was used in Franco's days to try major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol...
...evidently had no such qualms. In a phone call to a Spanish news agency, a member of yet another extremist group, the ultra-rightist Apostolic Anti-Communist Alliance of Spain, better known as "the Triple A," boastfully admitted carrying out the murders of the Communist lawyers. If Oriol and Villaescusa were executed by their captors, he warned, a "night of the long knives" would follow...
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