And a sense of national drift
In the four years since the death of Dictator Francisco Franco, Spaniards have discovered that there is a lot more to making their new democracy work than dropping slips of paper into ballot boxes. Last week 946,000 voters in three Basque provinces went to the polls to elect a local parliament; the central government of Premier Adolfo Suárez had calculated that this new assembly might bring stability to the violence-prone region, isolating ETA terrorists, who have already killed twelve officials and claimed scores of bombings so far...
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