Word: vizcaya
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...delay has added fuel to suspicions that the government has engaged in vote fiddling. In the province of Nueva Vizcaya, Opposition Candidate Carlos Padilla was initially reported to have trounced Political Affairs Minister Leonardo Perez by some 19,000 votes. Last week the election commission declared the winner was Perez, who just happened to be its former chairman...
...governments, and Madrid has thrown the national police into a straightforward drive against the terrorists with a good deal of success. So far this year ETA killings are down to 28, about half the 1980 rate. Last week the government announced the arrest of seven alleged ETA members in Vizcaya province and the seizure of substantial quantities of arms and ammunition. In an attempt to rebuild its popularity, the beleaguered ETA is now adopting the protest tactics of the Irish Republican Army: a group of 14 ETA prisoners last week launched a hunger strike...
Spain's extremists, however, are likely to beat the Communists to the punch. The Basque terrorists have already vowed to continue their struggle "until we achieve our goals" of a semi-autonomous state in the provinces of Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa. The Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Patriotic Front (FRAP), a tiny (200 member) Marxist urban-guerrilla organization, will probably continue its campaign of selected shootings and bombings aimed at disrupting public order...
...language, which has some 175 verb suffixes and is unrelated to any Indo-European tongue. Those who live on the French side of the border are poor agricultural people, and many of them have been moving to Paris, Bordeaux and other cities. But the four Basque provinces of Spain (Vizcaya, Álava, Guipúzcoa and Navarra) are among the country's richest. Through the centuries many Basques have gone out into the world and achieved greatness. Among them: St. Francis Xavier and St. Ignatius of Loyola, Philosopher Miguel Unamuno and South American Revolutionary Hero...
...real income is expected to increase at least 50% in the next decade. The growth prospects have already attracted several American banks into joint ventures with Spanish banks. First National City Bank and Bank of America, for example, have set up respective fifty-fifty arrangements with the Banco de Vizcaya and the Banco de Santander...