Spain: Monarchy Si, Liberal No

The newspaper A.B.C. is an institution in Spain. Usually dull, always conservative, it is nevertheless the most widely read and influential paper in Madrid. Besides, as the semi-official organ of the nation's organized monarch ists, it can justly claim to represent the government's position that Franco will one day be succeeded by a King. Yet early one morning last week, security cops moved in on newsstands to confiscate all copies of the paper they could find, readers. It even was the grabbed first it time from that A.B.C. sidewalk had been banned since the fall...

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