STUDENT DEMONSTRATION IN MADRID . Some 2,500 students staged a demonstration in Madrid February 12. For more than an hour.and a half the big crowd of youth stood their ground in Quevedo Plaza.
They shouted, "Long live free trade unions!" This has been a growing demand throughout Spain among both workers and students for some time, The students also voiced opposition to the government and distributed leaflets.
Police blockaded the plaza with their cars and moved in against the students. They used clubs to disperse the assemblage and made some twenty arrests, according to the special correspondent of the Paris daily Le Figaro.
A few priests were noted among the demonstrators. Certain . sectors of the Church are worried that the rigidity of Franco's regime may contribute to a violent social explosion and they are anxious to exercise a restraining influence on what in Spain are considered to be rebellious and “delinquent™ youth.
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