Basques in ends state monopoly pledge to of radio news broadcasts From Harry Debelius are expected to be revoked after end \aolent , Oct 2 the next Cabinet meeting. Most stations, however, will The state monopoly of radio 6 continue to carry the official actions news:broadcasts will end here news bulletins for the time tomorrow, according to reports beirg, since they lack news- From Harry Debelius gathering facilities of their own. Madrid, Oct 2 published in Madrid this week• But the SER network, which One of the military factions end. is privately owned and covers a of the Basque separatist move• For the first time since the large part of the country, will ment ETA has given up armed Civil War, Spanish radio net• begin broadcasting its own news struggle and renounced the works and stations will no bulletins tomorrow. practice of collecting " revolu• longer be obliged to link up tionary taxes " from business• with the state-run Radio Another major network, Radio men in the region, a Basque National twice a day to trans• Cadena Española, will continue newspaper reported today. mit news broadcasts prepared to make the twice-daily con• ! nexion with Radio Nacional, but The newspaper Egvn, pub• by the state corporation. lished in , carried . an will offer news bulletins of its interview today with leaders of In General Franco's day, own in addition. one of the three armed factions those were the only news broad• There are 156 radio stations bf the guerrilla movement. casts which could be heard in in Spain, the majority of which They were reported to have this country apart from pro• belong to the state. • said: "The Basque revolution, grammes originating outside Apart from Radio Nacional and the working class, need a Spain. Since the general's ana its commercial subsidiary party which will be in the van• death' the Government has be• Radio Continental, the principal guard and which will be iden• come more tolerant about the networks are Radio Cadena tified i na clear way and which broadcasting of news material Española, which includes the can consequently blaze the trail prepared by local stations or Mations that used to belong to for the policy to be followed at private networks. However, the (he now dismantled Francoist all levels ". decrees granting the news National Movement : Cadena de monopoly to the state are still Emisoras Sindicales, which The ETA spokesman added | on the statute books. used to belong to the now that, as a result, they would no The Madrid - newspaper ripfunct state-nm trade unions; longer engage in violent activi• SER; and Radio Popular, ties, but would instead attack Diario~16 reported yesterday Española that the Government has owned by the Roman Catholic on the political front " in sup• Church. port of the class struggle". advised managers of radio sta• tions that it will no longer The spokesman were quoted The news broadcasts of as saying that they had given enforce the obligation to make Spain's two television channels up extortion for two reasons. the twice-daily link-up as from lemain, however, under state tomorrow. The existing decrees control. One was that the divisions within ETA made it impossible to control the " tax collection " programme. Even the police New Bill to used this method to increase confusion, the ETA leaders said, as well as some private entitle individuals not connected with ETA who were simply making money. Spaniards to The other reason, according to the ETA spokesman was that legal aid " when the oligarchy refuses because it can afford to take From Our Own Correspondent necessary security precautions, Madrid, Oct 3 then the tax is levelled on The Spanish Government middle management—on people today introduced a Bill to give who often consider themselves Spaniards the right to demand abertzale (Basque patriarchs). the presence of a lawyer as . . . The tax has become some• soon as they are arrested by thing to be levied on only a the police and before they are few representatives of the small TRANSICIÓN charged. and medium level of the At the same time the Gov• Basque bourgeoisie." ernment submitted to the Cor• The statement means only tes its proposal for a new law that the practice of extracting on amnesty. The amnesty ques• " taxes " from wealthy people tion is linked to attempts by in the Basque country is re• the Centre Democratic Union nounced by one of the at least (UCD), the party of Señor three branches of ETA. Suáres, the Prime Minister, to Catalan triumph, page 6 win the support of the Basque and Catalan home-rule block in Parliament on other issues. In view of the divisions within his own party, Señor Suárez is though to be eager to bring one or more Basque or Catalon ministers into his Gov• ernment to form a coalition ! with enough votes in the Cortes i to guarantee a majority even if I some of the UCD factions break Fundación ; away. ! Señor Antonio Fonitan, presi• dent of the Senate, criticized in on Sunday the proposal of Señor Santiago Carrillo, the Spanish Communist Party leader, for the formation of a " government of concentration," or coalition government, incor• porating the Communists. " A political system can only be consolidated! "when it offers alternatives. Furthermore it is not possible because neither the UCD nor the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Parity, the principal parliamentary opposi• tion) wants it. WEST EUROPE Señor Carrillo Fresh start for Catalan region departs ^ for London From Our Correspondent Struggle looming over Madrid, Oct 2 Señor Santiago Carrillo, the Spanish Communist Party Generalität powers leader, left Madrid for London today to attend the Labour From William Chisiett ties powers including control Party conference in Brighton as Madrid, Oct 2 of law and order, education, an observer. public health, transport and He departed in an atmos• Thirty-seven years, ago this justice. It had its own Parlia• phere of controversy. He has month (October 15, 1940) ment and certain legislative been the centre of discussion in Señor Lluis Companys,.Presi• powers. Many Catalans would Communist circles in Spain and dent of the Generalitat, the }ike to see: the new statute elsewhere because of his tough Catalan autonomous govern• embracing similar powers and criticism of Moscow and his ment, was shot after the this will bé a contentious issue. repeated claims that com• Gestapo handed him over to Señor Tarradellas, now aged munism should respect national General Franco. 78, will now return in triumph independence and should not be •i Fo.ur days ago the Generali• to preside over the new Gene• an instrument of policy of the tat, under the presidency of ralitat and form a government, Soviet or any other Govern• Señor Josep TairradeHas, who which will have little more than ment. fled with Señor symbolic powers until full de• Companys in 1939 at the end of Just before leaving, he made tails are worked out. Señor other surprisingly bourgeois the civil war to exile in Frace, Tarradellas was prime minister was reestablished by royal statements at a rally of his of the Generalitat for part of party attended by about 10,000 decree. . the civil war and was then people in the Spanish capital appointed President-in-exile in Phrases like "Visca Cata• He had kind words for King 1954. It is with his return that lunya" (Catalan for " Long live the problems will start. '"•..{" • Juan Carlos, without whom, he ") were liable to said, " the shooting would bnng imprisonment in Franco's Señor Suárez skilfully manoe• already have begun". He was day. Catalan culture and lan• uvred the negotiations for referring to possible right-winEspañolag guage were suppressed and the Gerieralitat's return by reaction to tension and those favouring autonomy initially going over the heads disturbances in the country. treated like criminals. of the Catalan politicians elected in the June 15 general Now Señoír Suárez, the election on an autonomy plat• Spanish Prime Minister, has form. He started secret talks slaughtered another of the with Señor Tarradellas, who «acred cows of the former later brought in the leaders of regime the Catalan political parties. The Generalitat dates from 3359, before Spain was a uni• Señor Tarradellas used his fied country and regions like position, some say in an authoritarian way, to act as the "atalor.ia enjoyed their own intermediary between the Gov• rights. It was destroyed in ernment and the Catalan 1714 by the troops of Philip V parties. in the war of the Spanish Suc• cession, and lay dormant until Socialists and Communists, the establishment of the who for the time being are Second Republic in 1931. It shelving the republican issue, will now start, as the victors of then lasted until the end of the the June 15 election in Cata• civil wai. lonia, to try to control the The Generalitat has always Generalitat. Señor Suárez's been an emotive issue for Cata• ruling Democratic Centre Union lans. When Catalonia, which did badlv in Catalonia and it comprises four provinces, remains to be seen to what celebrated its Diada (national extent Señor Tarradellas is his day) last September 11, more man. ... than a trillion people paraded Señor TRANSICIÓNTarradellas, a con• through Barcelona waving the vinced republican, has avoided red and yellow Catalan flag and the issue in nesotiations. Bar• shouting, to the rhythm of celona, however, is still a beeping car horns, " Libertad, remiblican stronghold. Amnistía y Estatut de Auto• Municipal elections are nomía " (freedom, amnesty and planned for later this vear or statute of autonomy). earlv next year and the outcome Catalans, the most European- in Catalonia will greatly influ• minded of Spaniards, now have ence the membership of the back some of their freedom. Generalitat. Meanwhile. Snain's Ihere might be another conservative military hierarchy amnestv and the autonomy still frown upon autonomy ss statute, which will detail the " breaking uo Spain ". This was exact functions of the new probably whv one of the deci-»°s Generalitat, will be worked out stipulates that the Madrid with the new constitution. Government can for " security The 1932 Catalan autonomy reasons" abolish the General• statute specified the Generali• itat if it finds that necessary. Fundación Hopes dashed for end Gibe by the Duke on to Basque violence 6 Gibraltar reported •y/ From Harry Debelius "bomb " in solidarity with pop just because of the dynastic From Our Correspondent^-^ ff Madrid, Oct 5 : family relationship with" Great Madrid, Oct 4 § UUt_ *- -triar demonstrations against the nuclear station." The Duke of Edinburgh told Britain." [The conversation Hopes that the Basque King Juan Carlos of Spain:. took place less than one month separatist organization ETA The bomb damaged an elec• trical transformer and the "We're fed up'with the story after General Franco's death.] might give up violence were of Gibraltar, and it is very ex• dashed in Bilbao today, when small building housing it, next According to Señor Areílza's to a canteen for construction pensive at that'?,'. according to account, Prince Philip told the the underground . movement extracts from the memoirs of claimed responsibility for a workers. No one W3S hurt. King : " Why the hell don't you In other violence in the Bas• the King's first Foreign Mini• get in touch with the people in bomb attack last Saturday at ster, published in Madrid today. the construction site of a nu• que country, an organization Gibraltar and make some pro• clear power centre at Lemoniz. calling itself the International Prince 'Philip's..alleged re-, gress Jhere in favour of an marks, quoted curiously in Eng• arrangement ? We're fed up A spokesman for one ETA . Anti-Communist Group claimed responsibility for : a petrol lish in the middle of an .essay with the story anyhow, and it faction said in a newspaper in• in Spanish, were. relayed to is very expensive at that." terview on Sunday that his bomb attack on the San Sebas• tian, headquarters of the Bas• Señor José Maria de Áreílza, Although both the King and group would stop collecting the former Foreign Minister, by "revolutionary taxes" from que. Communi-.t Party. It the former minister speak ex• threatened " new actions to• the King on December 13, 1975, cellent English, the fact that the businessmen and would rele• Señor Areilza claims. He gate the armed struggle to a morrow." text of that paragraph was not Basque. political parties and quoted them in his Diary of a translated into Spanish for the secondary position in order to Minister of the Monarchy, t.raide unions are planning big benefit , of the newspaper offer active political support to which is being summarized in leftist parties. However, it is demonstrations in northern readers was as surprising to instalments by the Madrid mon• some observers as thé fact that now plain that this decision Spanish cities on Friday, the archist daily, ABC. : does not affect the other fac• 41st anniversary of the the conversation was reported The reference to the Duke at all. tions v of the much-divided founding of the autonomous extremist organization. Basque government. Friday is of Edinburgh came in the third The former minister revealed The ETA—or part of it—in• also the day on which a pro• instalment, entitled: "The that the King also discussed the formed the Basque nationalist posed law on amnesty is to be Swearing-in of the Government morale of the Spanish armed at the Zarzuela." The question newspaper Deia in Bilbao debated in the" Parliament, in. forces after the decision to of Gibraltar was one of a num• today that it had placed the Madrid. withdraw from thé western ber of foreign policy issues Sahara. which reportedly came up in EspañolaOur Foreign Staff writes : A the conversation between the spokesman at Buckingham King and his Foreign Minister Palace said last night that at the Zarzuela Palace on that, Prince Philip regarded any con• date. versations in private he had On Gibraltar, King Juan with King Juan Carlos as being Carlos is said to have told the strictly private and therefore minister: "Be extremely care• the reported statements would ful not to give the impression neither be confirmed nor that there is any policy change denied. New Basque killing as amnesty is agrèècT ^ From Our Correspondent Union and the opposition, Madrid, Oct 7 • "" would also exclude members of. the mysterious terrorist organi• Another suspected political zation Grapo. Although some killing occurred in the Basque debate is expected, the passage region just as final agreement of ..the amnesty proposal is á was/reached here on a new foregone conclusion^ TRANSICIÓNdraft law on amnesty for polit• ical offenders. It will probably come up before the Congress within two The body of a taxi driver, weeks, and She only party believed to be a regular police which apposes it is the rtgMit- informer, was found with two wittg Popular Alliance, headed bullet wounds today outside by Señor Manuel Fraga Iri- Hernand, near Sam .'Sebastian. barne, the former Interior The Basque separatist organiza• Minister. tion ETA was suspected of The exclusions from • the having perpetrated the mur• benefits of the amnesty, der. ; • written into the text of the Ill Madrid last night a multi• draft, were the result of " trad• party parliamentary committee ing " between the Centre approved the text of a draft Democratic Union and left- law which would wipe the slate wing party representatives. clean for most political offend• The ruling party insisted ers but would not let ousted that the military establishment military men back into the would not stand for a law. armed forces. obliging it to take back ousted The compromise Bill, worked officers and soldiers. As a com• Fundación out between representatives of pensation, the leftists sug• the ruling Centre Democratic gested other exclusions. WEST EUROPE. Opposition joins Senor Suarez in drafting anti-terrorism law as three die in Basque outrage From William Chislett was on an ETA death list. Just Each fresh act of political Madrid, Oct 9 over a year ago Señor Juan violence makes it more and Spanish Government and María de Araluce, president of more difficult for the Govern• Opposition leaders, shocked by the provincial delegation of ment to bring the amnesty into the assassination of a provincial Guipúzcoa, was assassinated in force. No details have been administrator and his two police San Sebastian, and ETA an• released of what kind of anti- bodyguards in the Basque nounced that i! intended to kill terrorist law might be intro• country, have agreed to all "presidents ol the Francoist duced, but the Government is cooperate in drafting urgent delegations ". wary of producing anything legislation for " the defence of Only on Friday the military similar to the draconian decree democracy against terrorism ". wing of ETA announced in laws which Franco introduced Señor Suárez, the Prime Bilbao that it had not given up every time law and order was Minister, was meeting repre• its "armed struggle" as pre• disturbed and which only made sentatives of opposition parties viously reported, because it did matters worse.. -r when news arrived yesterday not consider the amnesty agreed between the Government and Faced by problems on all from Guernica of the death of sidas Señor Suarez called the Señor Augusto Unceta Barren- the Opposition sufficient, and because several extreme left inter-party meeting to try to echea, president of the provin• achieve basic agreement with cial delegation of Vizcaya, in a parties had still not been legalized. the Opposition before sub• sub-machine gun attack on his mitting his economic and politi• On the same day Señor car. cal programme to the Cortes Miguel Angei Apalategui Basque representatives attend• later this month. ing the meeting, returned (" Apala"), who is reputed to be a leading ETA member, Economic measures arEspañolae hurriedly to Bilbao. The rest of reported to include a fund of the participants drew up a joint failed to repot f to the Mar-' 100,000m pesetas (£S60m) to communique condemning " this settles police as he is required relieve unemployment and a most barbaric destabilization of to do twice a week. He has the Spanish democratic pro• been on provisional liberty in wage ceiling of 22 per cent. cess ".. France for th« past month in Inflation at the present rate connexion with the kidnapping will reach 30 per cent by the The Communist, Socialist and and murder of a Basque indus• end of this year. Catalan parties, the neo- trialist. Francoist Popular Alliance and Commentators have spoken the ruling Democratic Centre The Guernica outrage was of the meeting as a kind of Union promised to " support the the worst since January when " historic compromise ". While Government in its responsibi• five Communist lawyers were a coalition government is not in lity of putting an end to these machine gunned to death in prospect, Señor Suárez never• acts, incompatible with the their Madrid office. theless wishes to obtain tacit democratic order. In this line Señor Suárez was continuing consent for his programme in we promise to deal urgently the. intér-party discussions order for it to be as effective as ¡ with the joint drafting of a law today. possible. for the defence of democracy The new amnesty agreed last All the Opposition is aware against terrorism ". Thursday, which is almost tanta• that the consolidation of the This declaration shows the mount to a total amnesty, will democratic prcces-s has a long considerable change since go before the Cortes shortly way to go and in this respect Franco's death in opposition and when aproved would bene• are offering their cooperation. attitudes to political violence. fit all Basque prisoners. The Socialists and Communists The military wing of the amnesty covers the period termed yesterday's talks as Basque separatist movement between the December 15 " positive" and Señor Fer• ETA later accepted responsi• referendum on political nando Abril Martorell, the Gov• bility for the Guernica murders. reforms and- the June 15 ernment's spokesman, said the Señor Uncetn Barrenechea ger eral electionTRANSICIÓN. atmosphere was " cordial ". Tension m

arme dio rces From Our Correspondent Madrid, Oct 10 Señor Suárez. the Prime Minister, held an unscheduled meeting here today wiih mem• bers of his Cabinet concerned with military, polHtieal and security affairs after right- wing extremists tried to turn the funeral of an assassinated FundaciónGovernmen t officio! into a political rally. Thep were believed to have ¡ discussed the steps the Govern• ment should take in the face of continuing terrorist attacks and growin gdiscontent among some members of the armed forces and police. Outside the church in the Basque town of Guernica, where the funeral was held of the murdered official and his police escort, right-wing acti• vists tried to overturn the car of Señar Eduardo Navarro, the Deputy Secretary of the In- WEST EUROPE__j£ WEST EUROPE isti* Austerity programme wins support of Amnesty for political Spanish union leaders activists passed From Harry Debelus meet again at the Prime Minis• ter's Monctoa Palace. by Spanish Parliament Madrid, Oct 12 It may be even harder to• Spain's biggest trade union, morrow to achieve a consensus From Harry Debelius y^ [edged responsibility for seven the Commiunist-led Workers* of opinion than it was last Madrid Oct 14 — bombs which went- off cm Commissions, announced today Saturday and Sunday, since the ' The ' Spanish Parliament Wednesday and yesterday that it will go along with the main issue to be discussed is passed a law granting amnesty King Juan Carlos- has economic programme accepted public order, with a proposal ro most political activists today appealed to the military to show by die" main political parties that laws affecting human against a background of con- "calm and realism". In a last weekend. rights should be revised provi• rinuing terrorism and signs of speech delivered yesterday to At a press conference in sionally by decree. military unrest. Foreign Legion troops on the Madrid, Senor Marcelino Leaders of the Workers' Bowine to real or feared Canary island of Fuerteven- C aniacho, a member of the Commissions said that Spain pressure from the military es- tura, the King said: "The high Central Committee of the Com• would need "austerity at the tablishment .the framers of the and noble function of the munist Party, and other top and moderation at the bot- law excluded the possibility of armed forces is to distinguish Workers' Commissions leaders torn" in order to survive the reinstatement in the armed between what is permanent and called the two-year austerity economic recession. At the forces of those ousted because what is changeable, to /know same time, they insisted that programme " a valid solution ". of membership of the Democra- th,at there are thin«s whlFh we the purchasing power of the The trade union represent• ric Military Union, which the a11 musJ conserve intact, in the working class should not atives expressed some minor face of iaa and diminish. Señor Camacho military hierarchy considers a , , necessary reservations, particularly with claimed that the Workers' threat tc discipline, changes, because' those things regard to wage ceilings and Commissions had one and a The law also avoids any speci- constitute the essence of Spain the lifting of restrictions on half million members—almost fic mention of conscientious ob- and we ProlMsed •«». defend dismissals of staff under cer• lectors although bv apparent Españolatneni • a tenth of the labour force. tain; conditions. But their reac tacit acreement with the Gov- He asked them-" to look upon tion was encouraging, for with• He expressed the opinion crnment. the military began the present with calmness and out the cooperation of labour. that Señor Suárez, the Prime freeing conscientious objectors realism which characterize a Minister, had called for a Spain, would be unable to puB from Dnson last week. good soldier. To contemplate oT^f^co^i^ririsrih «M7ncloau;pa«»' becaase th« Also expected to be excluded rhe fture with hope and optnn- r^nion of most economic t^g^^e*™* from rhe benefits of the am- ism> because I am sure that we are i-esiv are members of the giving birth to a tnew era e3 Thf- approval of the believed that any;o*«^y«J. mysterious Grapo (First of 111 our history, in which the Workers' Commissions paves rnent which'Might October Anti-fascist Revolution- greatness of our nation will the way for the next round of place faced the threat ot oemg avy Groups). The law also fails shine forth . talks to be held tomorrow replaced by "the next » to oblige employers to take The King's speech was signi- when party representatives diet back staff dismissed for politi- ficant in view of indications of cal reasons. increasing discontent among The text had been agreed some sectors of the Army and beforehand by . the Centre the police with the course of Democratic Union of Seiior events among such indications Suarez, the Prime Minister, and was the homage paid on Wed- rtie main parliamentary opposi- nesday by troops in i ion, the Spanish Socialist Malaga to their commander, a Workers' Party. It was over- colonel who had been relieved whelminely approved in. the of his post and placed under ||

lower House. Seuori ManueUMKIUl hous••»»e" arrest foior orderin01 g his J Fraga 'ribarnc, the head of the men to break up a youth r right-wing Popular Alliance, demonstration authorized by expressed the hope that it the Government, would be " the last amnesty be- . In another incident, a general TRANSICIÓNf ore we get down to the busi- staff officer was "booed and rvess of public order". insulted in Civil Guard bar- Members of the Popular racks in the Basque country. Alliance abstained from voting There was also a secret meet- on the amnesty Bill. ing between a number of senior Madrid newspapers reported army, police and naval officers today that the separatist Basque' in Javea, near Valencia, last organization E"-' ''"^ acknow- week.

Fundación WEST EUROPE. Cars blaze as extremists battle with police on anniversary of Catalan leader's execution From Harry Debelius y an extreme right-wing organiza• Meanwhile Madrid police Madrid, Oct 16 \S tion. He is wanted for question• have named the chief suspect ing about a bomb explosion at in the killing of a police captain Extremists threw about 100 the offices of the Barcelona- on September 27 as Señor Juan petrol bombs in Barcelona, based humour magazine El Martin Luna, a 25-year-old setting several parked cars on Papus on September 20. Two welder, who was arrested last fire and injuring seven police• people died in the explosion. Sunday along with 17 other men, according to an official During the weekend, Sefior members of Grapo. Police are statement today. Royuela telephoned a Barcelona still looking for an accomplice. Hundreds of demonstrators newspaper to say he knows only Two " safe houses" used by belonging to the International three of the 13 persons arrested Grapo were discovered in the Spanish Communist Party in connexion with the bombing. capital last Wednesday. They (PCEI), which is to the left of He told the newspaper that he contained arms and - propa• the main Spanish Communist never placed a bomb or carried ganda, stolen military uniforms Party (PCE), battled with riot a pistol. and other items. police for several hours on Another Barcelona news• Near the Basque city of San Saturday night in the city paper, Mundo Diario, received Sebastian, police defused a centre. a communique from the right- bomb at the mountaintop site wing terrorist movement known Hit by metal pellets fired of a television mast. Police as the Triple-A (Apostolic from slingshots as well as by suspect the device was planted Anticom-munist Alliance) in firebombs, police fought back by the separatist ETA (Basque which attacks on "a Catalan with rubber bullets and smoke Homeland and Liberty), whose leftist leader" and two publi• grenades. The leftists staged members blew -up ".three otheEspañolar cations were threatened unless their demonstration in favour aerials in the Basque country Sefior Miguel Gomez Benet, the of Catalan separatism on the last Wednesday. prime suspect held in the El thirty-seventh anniversary of Papus bombing, is released. At a political rally of the the execution of President Luis right-wing National Alliance, Companys of the Generalitat, In the Mediterranean city of Señor Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the autonomous Catalan govern• Valencia, a man claiming to be leader of -the party and a former ment. a member of Grapo (the First ambassador to London, said: Police have taken out a war• of October antifascist revolu• " Public order is rapidly dis• rant ror rhe arrest of Sefior tionary groups) held up a sav• integrating. And instead of say• Alberto Royuela, a fascist acti• ings bank on Saturday but got ing that this state of affairs vist and president of the away with only 50,000 pesetas must cease, they give one —v ------i .Franco's Guard, (£338). amnesty after another".

Spanish party leaders meet again as violence goes on All-party group to control From Our Correspondent 7^ ing at Moncloa Palace to seek Madrid, Oct 18 agreement on urgent measures Spanish television ^# . to solve Spain's economic crisis From Our Correspondent press si ranco's death, In a climate of continuing and possible decree-laws on pub- Madrid, Oct 19 *-' Go ent members . will pohtical violence, the leaders of ,¡c order and respect for human TRANSICIÓNThe_ Spanish Governmen t and mak alf of the joint com- Spain's principal parties gath- r¡gnts opposition parties are to set up mittee" nd the other half will ered again today at ,the resi- Jn ¿arcelona a fasdst leader a joint committee to control be divided among the opposition dence of Senor Suarez, the h fe 1¡ce ¡n connexion- television until the new tele• Prime Minuter, for another ses- ^th the bombing which killed parties according to their repre• vision statute is drafted and sentation in the Cortes. sion of Moncloa pact talks. mo people at offices of a approved by the Cortes. • Politicians also agreed at yes• In a San Sebastian hospital, cal magazine there said,he had The agreement was reached terday's meeting to set up a doctors were struggling to save nothing to do with the blast, yesterday and was the first poli- committee to study the future the life of a Civil Guard seri- At a clandestine news con- ical one to come out of the of the news agency, newspapers ously wounded by a shotgun ference Señor Albert Royuela iresent meetings between the and radio stations belonging to' blasts fired from a passing car aiSo denied the existence of the Government and the opposition the National Movement, the in the asque town of Lasarte right-wing terrorist organization >arties. It will come into effect only legal political organization last night. Triple-A (Apostolic Anti-Com- ext Monday. under Franco. The party leaders were meet- munist Alliance). Radio Television Espanola The movement no longer RTVE) was controlled during exists but its newspapers and he three-week election camp• radio stations are still con• aign this summer by a com- trolled by the Government. ? : littee made up of the different No agreement was reached on irties, but after the election ether political issues, including levision control returned to the reorganization of the policp e Government. forces and the proposed Law Fundación The Spanish Workers' for the Defence of Democracy. 'cialist Party has been parti- Socialists and Communists are ilarly adamant that control of wary of an anti-terrorist law fcTVE should be taken out of that would be too restrictive at the hands of the Government. a time when Spaniards are still The position of head of RTVE accustoming themselves to is a political appointment and meeting and demonstrating there is widespread criticism more^ freely. These issues will that in freedom of expression be discussed at Friday's meet- ' •"•'-'•on has lagged behind the in?:- "WEST EUROPE Spanish workers and employers cool WEST EUROPE. towards austerity pact Suarez Government From William Chislett ts doomed to failure unless Viadrid, Oct 24 ! employers relent. The trade union leaders fear Government ministers, trade and opposition that the rank and file may anion leaders and employers revolt against their leadership. met today to discuss an econo• Señor Marcelino Camacho, the mic pact which is to be rignsd national secretary general of sign austerity pact omorrow by the ruling Demo- the Workers' Commissions, re- :ratic Centre Union and oppo• tecated-over the weekend at a From William Chislett wage increases in 1978 and ah sition parties. meeting in the mining area of Madrid, Oct 23 attempt to- keep price increases Political parties have tem• Asturias that the pact was not below that figure will be pre• porarily buried their dif• a social contract. The fact is The Spanish Government sented to the Lower House of ferences and agreed oh an aus• that the pact amounts to that, and the opposition parties the Cortes on. Thursday by terity programme, but trade but party and" trade union signed an economic pact today Señor Suárez. unions and particularly leaders are afraid to use the which introduces strict aus• Trade union leaders and employers are far from happy. word. terity measures for two years. employers were due to meet Politicians were expected to. Today's meeting in the Mon- Señor Camacho had to steer government ministers tonight sign a political pact at the cloa Palace, presided over by his way carefully round accu• to discuss their views. At a same time but at the last Senor Fernando Abril Mar- sations by the Asturias secre• meeting yesterday the trade moment the Spanish Workers' torell, the Deputy Prime Minis• tary-general that the pact Was unionists expressed reserva• Socialist Party withdrew its ter for political affairs, was " an attempt by the Govern• tions over' the wage limit. support. . ' ' attended by leaders of the ment to defend the interests of Employees, who feel that they Socialist General Union of the oligarchy". Señor Camacho The signing of the economic have been left out of the négo• Workers, the Communist- said that the time had come pact: was televised from the Españolaciations inore than anyone else, dominated Workers' Commis• for everyone to make sacri• residence of Señor Suárez, the were not as critical of the pact as expected. sions and representatives of fices. Banners critical of the Prime Minister. The document the main employers' organiza• pact were displayed at the was first signed by Señor The political pact, which was tions: ' meeting. Suárez and then passed round to have been signed today, pro• On the employers' part, with the large rectangular cable vides for changes in various While the Socialist and starting with Señor Felipe articles of the penal code in• Communist parties, especially hundreds of firms in bad shape and threatened with Gonzalez, the Socialist leader, cluding those banning contra-; the latter, have gone out of bankruptcy, their resistance and ending'with Señor Santi• caption and penalizing adult• their way to cooperate with could lead to divisions within ago Carrillo, the Communist erers. Tt grants greater free the. Government as much as the Democratic Centre, split• leader, who delayed a visit to dom to hold meetings ano they can without jeopardizing ting it up into vaguely defined Paris in order to attend the demonstrations and provide' :heir own programmes, their right and left wings. . . signing. . for: a reorganization of the respective trade unions have Reports are increasing that Señor Suárez said that he police. The reason for the reservations. Professor Enrique Fuentes thought the pact would " bene- Socialists' change of mind—! The controversial measures Quintana, . the Deputy. Prime fit all". Later in a statement apparently only 15 minutes in the pact include a ceiling on Minister for economic affairs, to reporters he said that he before the signing was due— wage increases for 1978 of 22 who has lost more sleep than hoped the pact would be suc• was not immediately clear. They per cent and the right for anyone else in drawing up the cessful because of the "high were believed to have reserva-, tións over several points. employers to reduce their staff main lines of the pact, and sense of responsibility showed by 5 per cent. The wage ceil• Señor Francisco Fernandez by. the political forces." Sacri• A new anti-terrorist law is ing is too low for the union as Ordonez, the Minister of fices would be needed by expected to be included in inflation is running at JO per Finance and a Social Democrat, everyone. - another political pact as politi cent and far too high for the could lose their hosts in a The programme which In• clans differ widely over, it employers, who also want no government reshuffle, cludes a 22 per cent ceiling on form. . ' firm restrictions on staff Barcelona : Señor Josep Tarra- reductions. dellas today took the. oath as The employers f*el that they President of TRANSICIÓNthe Catalan have not been consulted Regional Government which has enough and are putting up the been reestablished after 38 strongest resistance despite the years. He called his investiture tact that the Democratic " the end of a long historical Centre is considered as iiavour- parenthesis". The ceremony was attended by Señor Suárez, ible to their interests. the Spanish Prime Minister.— Commentators have already UlPI. jegun implying that the pact is

Changes on ¿he way in Spanish Cabinet From Ourr CCorresponden /IrrÀcnnnriant V thing normali and, not trauma- wit. h. th. e right. _ win. g . of the'M- Madrid, Oct 26 • — tjc ... in a democratic system defined \ÍHPSI»e, for the pact Senor Suârez, the Spanish the readjustment of a govern- does aotV%^resent the centre's PnmFundacióne Minister, intends to ment is something normal, but -frt&* economic programme. reshuffle his Cabinet, accord• I can't say when or how it will. Señor Suárez has had to make ing to remarks made today by be done. In any case it will no_ more concessions to the left as spokesman for the ruling affect the internal coherence than to the right in order to Democratic Centre Union. of the centre nor of the Govern• gain the support of the Soda- Senor Guillermo Medina, the ment. Only Senor Suarez has lists and Communists. information secretary of the all the facts and he has the The replacement of Profes• centre's executive committee, support of the centre." sor Enrique Fuentes Quintana, said that there will be : a The signing of the economic the economics expert and Senor "readjustment" some time in pact yesterday with all the Francisco Fernandez Ordonez, the next three monrhe opposition parties has made the Finance Minister, is not Suarez rather unpopular- ruled out WESTEUROPÇ j|afty-pact¿| bitrefqriiPI From.William Çhislett., '/{• r[ ! to look back-T We all have of Spanish Madrid,' .Oct' 28 '':'*''K\¿> • 5 -Histories.. Señor Santiago Carrillo, the„] 'I,..do. not; have, to ..testify { ^Spanish,. Communist. .'• leader, before God to the; ideological distance.,..between,,.the ;Con*-; police^ £ i addressed the exclusive Twenty** .^^i^^:'Xrà2r^ .From ;WiH>am GJhj^létt y- First Centurvy Club, formerlvy a - Wsf Party j. and the Popular, Alliance. •Madrit', Oct .27 ¡¿'.í; bastion of the Franco- regime, ¡ft lri|Jiis,.addtess, Señor CarrillP f'-11je>5reiniarkaWe coojffll^tion last anight at the invitation of argued that Eurocommunism -between the Spanish Q^overn Señor- Manuel Fraga Iribarne, was not,simply.a,táctica] move ment aired oppositioifxparties leader? ,of A the.f^nep-Francoist was carried one slxge farther Popular Alliance..'.*" ', ' by the party but a way to trans: today with the siawAg in the .Señor ¡Fraga, introduced form society ^democratically. Cortes of a politics! pact be• Señor Carrillo as,'' a' communist We,.are,aware that on June tween them. All^fie opposition of pure quality who has to be •lathe country,did not, vote :f or parties signed ilaept die neo- watched " ; Senpr Carrillo, '••A -socialist: transformation,-,but- Francoist Popular. Alliance of described has, host's,: introduc• •f'mply for democratic change",-, :, Señor Manuel Fraga. tion a^ " the ,act of a civilized he •.,said., Hisparty respected * - -Under, the agreement the re• citizen ", and added.'„"'£ "am, this. " ','.:.-. í,¡af5t»s! ;i\i'*<-t\tm. • maining repressive aspects of like, all those of my generation, f\jSeñpr. Fraga's invitation, how• the Francoist ilaws will be the. product of. a tbrnierttéd ever, has led to the desertion removed and the police and the Spain. . Dialogue must,replace of one^of -the ;parties in. his paramilitary Civil Guard forces 'Pr.pular i Alliance,^ ;and 'the guns."; %r will be reorganized. •resignation < of : a,, 'number of i In,... his introduction,:''Senpr Measures are, included to members of the. club.: It js only Fraga drew a parallel between four, months; ago,' in the elec• control those newspapers and his own background , and that tion :-i campaign*. that" Señor radio stations which belonged of his guest. He himself ,was to *he dismantled National -•Froga was saying he" > would the spn of a poor Galician' far• Movement,, the only legal poli• never sit down iwith the Com; tical organization under Franco, mer who, by dint of hard work', munists , and that' as well as the state-run tele• was able to educate, his, ,12 (andT'pornography were,'':t6- vision, -which will be presided children ¡Señor Carri-llo's father, getlier, the two gravest'threats. over by a joint committee made was a poor Asturian wPrker who • facing Spain.'* .-•«••< ' ihl -, •»<»•. up of the. Government,;' and rose to be a deputy ministerÜn' , v As the newspaper Informa- •opposition parties. The pact the Republican Government, .,w' eiónes said in' á leading articlEspañolae ' gives.anyone arrested the right í "Carrillo fought .wiitih .'the, today: " The- Twenty-First'Cen-, to' have a lawyer from the guerrillas in the 40s [from tury Club has' just arrived' in " moment of his detention and exile in France] and I was. the twentieth ' century, having' also lifts the .btt^on contra- Information Minister in the been anchored -in the! nine• 60s and Interior Minister in teenth'.1'•••-i !•«(;•_ ,:'!<-\4<-iv.h-)-. the 70s, proposing reforms and' .,; "This was the spirit which' - The police reform, as Señor not revolution ", he said.,''" '•> Rodolfo Martín .Villa, the In• Señor Fraga conveyed in; his'. " Now we are ' in .' October,. Introduction: that the club had terior, .'Minister, 'explained to 1977. Spain is confronted'with, civil governors at a special declined after the general elec• extremely grave problems..and tion to become a;platform' fpr' meeting yesterday,' amounts to I think we have to accept some, -moro police protection for all the political parties'in'the' ideas, whether we like" them 'or. Cortes. The Communists'.ha?e' authorized demonstrations and : not.: "'•;';. vv-t' ''''•••'' ' basic political rights together Jour ' VriPre ' seats ' than, 'the,. with a greater crackdown oh ' " The'first is that St is useless Alliance.",, 1,'•','•. '',:'.'•• !'.-, i ','-!.' illegal activities such as picket• ing and groups which espouse ' violence such as the Basque separatist organization. ETA. The Popular Alliance with, 16 seats in the Congress, the . lower house of the Cortes, did -not sign the pact because it is •against the police reforms. Señor Laureano López Rodó, one of the alliance's leaders, said that the restructuring ; of the police forces-would mean '.'the dismantling of the means •of security of the state" against TRANSICIÓN 'subversión and terrorism. While : the Popular Alliance, has little ^weight in the Cortes it reflects to a great extent the conserva- itive thinking of the military hierarchy. ••'"•";•• j' The Popular Mliancejsfacing _'¡seriousJiu^3i3l-^ifficuTties at ^ráitrliSSíSent, brought to a head, ;by [ Señor Manuel Fraga's :'cdrdial reflations with Señor Santiago Carrillo, the Commun• ist leader. Señor Fraga has «Rgréed to present Señor Carrillo tonight at the exclusive . XXI Club where the Communist ileader Will be speaking on Euro• communism. 5* jit'This will probably! result in I I i ! 'one of the alliance's main parties,,'"'the * Spanish National Union, breaking away. In a Fundaciónstatement "today.- Señor José María Velo: de Antelo, . the union's * "^ice-president, • said v "The presentation of Carrillo by the secretary-general of the Popular Alliance is the final straw which has broken the patience and overwhelmed with

jndi«naüpAJi»an^paniards^; ¿ B "Mñor Fraga has recently shown himself anxious to im• prove on the Francoist image of the Popular Alliance and in speeches now refers to it as being "centre .right." His •presentation of Señor Carrillo in the XXI Club, is .seen as. am attempt to gain a, more demo• cratic reputation. Many of the. club's best known right-wingf members have resigned dv«r thef annual religious and , political i From William Chislett countrv ", Prince Carlos Hugo told TheTimes before the con• pilgrimage. Last year right- 1 Madrid, Oct 30 gress started. He, said that | he wing gunmen killed two members of the Carlos Hugo j The Carfet party held us was the last political leader1 to f first authorized congress since ' return to Spain after Franco's section , and. Prince Sixto, I the death of General Franco death because " the Francoist present at Montejurra, was expelled from Spain again. - 'here today in the presence of powers, which still exist, have , Prince CjAp§ Hugo told me \ its leader, Prince Carlos Hugo always considered the:. Carlists de Borgô Parma, claimant to tj.at he i3«r no relationship as a threat. . Four times „we whatsoeye*R?with his younger ithe, Spanish throne. have been crushed in 150 years- I- Prince Carlos Hugo, who 'has brother-Sand : did not know and each time we have rebuilt whetH^he would, also return 'just returned after nine years ourselves ". • * •'.. "in exile, stated that he had not There were -.three Carlist to fcaui. The prince posed for come back to "plant any wars in the last century and in tl%rîameras wearing the tradi• dynastic problem but as a poli• the Spanish. Civil War Carlist tional red beret of- the Carlist tician to fight for democracy requêtes, strong in Navarra, party, slapping young members }n Spain ". He and other one of the Basque provinces, oil the back, some of whom members of his family were supported the Nationalists. were wearing'badges showing expelled in December, 1968,, They were fanatical Roman the prince's face.. seven months . before General Catholics and fierce fighters. ; The prince, ' who is married Franco named Juan Carlos, a They hoped..that when the war to Princess Irene of Holland, very,,distant cousin oil Cairips was over Franco would restore said his party had four times Hugo, as his successor. "the monarchy, abolished in as'.many activists as the ruling Democratic Centre Union. The The prince's claim to' the 1931, with a Carlist. '. . ••' Carlists claim to have 25,000 : throne arises from the dispute' Nothing happened and later activists and 150,000' members.;; over the succession to Fer-, the Carlist movement split into Their stronghold is in Navarra \ dinand VII on his death in two factions, a majority left- and there were delegates at. 1833. Ferdinand's '. brother wing section under Prince the congress from as far afield ¡ Carlos (from ,.' whom Prince Carlos Hugo which believes in as the Canary and Balearic; Carlos Hugo descends) claimed a socialist society with "auto• islands. . ' ' - . i ' the throne, but the crown gestion " (a form of workers' i The prince; who: is; presiden^ passed to Ferdinand's control), and a small extreme of the party and " king of the; daughter, Isabella. Thé position right-wing . section led by Carlists,", said he was pre,: of the Carlist family was then Carlos Hugo's younger brother pared to' work with other; comparable to that of the Prince Sixto. parties, not just of the, left, in Stuarts. Every May Carlists swàrm Española up Montejurra, a mountain order to ." avoid • polarization " It is very emotional for into left and right". ..: me to be back in my own near , for their ......

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