Volume 21, Number 2 · February 21, 1974
Shaking Up Franco's Spain
By Barbara Probst Solomon
Nobody could have been more surprised than the Spanish left last December 20 when a splinter group of Basque ETA (with the reported help of the IRA) assassinated Premier Luis Carrero Blanco in a muddy street in Madrid, literally blowing up his car, which landed on the fourth floor of the church he had just left. The bizarre killing must have confirmed the worst nightmares of Santiago de Carrillo, the titular head of the Spanish Communist party, about irresponsible revolutionary violence. It occurred on the same morning as the opening of the trial of the 'Carabanchel Ten,' the ten members of the illegal workers' commissions who had been held in Carabanchel Prison for fourteen months, and who were being prosecuted simply for 'illegal assembly' in a monastery at Pozuelo.
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