Word: vitoria
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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...
...unprecedented defiance of Madrid, Alava's provincial authorities declared themselves "profoundly disgusted by the government's acts." More than 30,000 people gathered for the slain men's funeral at the cathedral, where an angry priest thundered against the "brutal violence" of the police. While Vitoria mourned, workers in Bilbao, Pamplona and other Basque cities streamed off their jobs in sympathy, closing down hundreds of factories...
...anticlerical." The Holy See early this month appointed an archbishop coadjutor for the archdiocese of Seville with rights and functions equal to Segura's and with the "right of succession.'' He is affable, 50-year-old José Maria Bueno y Monreal, former bishop of Vitoria and an ardent supporter of Franco...
...were charged with a plot "to overthrow the government [and] incite seditious strikes," but actually the heart of their offense was that they were Basques. In May 1951, when labor unrest broke out in Spain, Vitoria's 5,000 workers stayed quietly at home for five days. They did not riot in the streets or break windows, as some in other places had done. The trouble had not even started in Basque country, but in Catalan Barcelona. But when the Madrid authorities began looking for scapegoats, their angry eyes fell on Vitoria, where there are plenty of men with...
...police, this was the first time that they had been denounced and pilloried in public. Ugly and depressing as it was, the work of court and defense lawyers and the outcome of the case brought a candle's gleam of hope to many in darkened Spain. Said a Vitoria lawyer: "It looks as if justice and human rights might be on their way back to this tormented land...