Spain: Democracy with Difficulties

Spain has problems. Twenty-two percent of its labor force is unemployed, a rate exceeded nowhere in Europe. Reindustrialization is more than a sight down the road. Heroin has spawned a bloodless crime wave by desperate, often apologetic, unemployed youth. Bloodletting is left to the Basque separatists of ETA, who continue to kill with tacit support from 17 percent of the Basque population, which last June voted for Henri Batasuna, candidate of the one nationalist party that refuses to condemn...