Using an attempted coup as the pretext, Bolivian President Hugo Banzer Suárez decreed a sweeping series of measures November 9 to clamp down hard on opposition to his shaky military regime.

As part of the “new order,” the general outlawed all political parties, labor unions, and student and business associations. Heavy penalties were set for any public or private institutions that engage in political activity.

A delegation of prominent intellectuals and civil libertarians presented a petition with 2,000 signatures to the Iranian Embassy in Washington on November 22 demanding the release of Vida Hadjebi Tabrizi and Dr. Ali Shariatti – two of the many writers, intellectuals, and artists now in the shah’s jails.

Utilizing the assassination of the Spanish premier, Admiral Carrero Blanco in December 1973, the Franco regime has cooked up a frame-up of some of Spain’s leading intellectuals.

On September 16, three days after more than ten persons were killed in the bombing of the Bar Rolando, a Madrid cafe, the police arrested some eight persons. Among them was Genoveva (Eva) Forest de Sastre, a psychiatrist and one of the country’s bestknown feminists. She is married to Alfonso Sastre, one of Spain’s leading playwrights.