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Spain's socialist prime minister Felipe Gonzalez has finally set 12 March as the date for a referendum on leaving NATO. The socialist party was elected on a promise of leaving NATO and Gonzalez, who supports NATO, has been trying to wriggle out ever since.
Spain's large and broad-based anti-NATO movement was joined last week by the socialist trade union, the UGT. Right wing parties say they will boycott the referendum because they consider it unconstitutional. Opinion polls suggest the government would lose a straight ballot on NATO membership by as much as two The Spanish government has delayed setting a date for over a year while it tries to manouvre its way around this little problem. Its strategy has two prongs. It has fixed the questions to give built an escape hatch by saying that if the majority against NATO is not very big, it will either stay in NATO anyway, or call an election Announcing the referendum, deputy prime minister Alfonso Guerra grandiloquently promised that the government will treat the Sceptical observers point out this means it will Britain hosts two unwelcome visitors on 17 February. The first is from Star Wars chief salesperson General Abrahamson, who addresses a conference called by the Tory backbench Bow Group on arrival and will then spend some days in the country lobbying British business interests.
The second visit is from Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal who comes as the guest of Margaret Thatcher. Turkey, whose human rights record is on a par with Latin America's worst , regards Britain 'as its closest friend in the European Community'. Ozal wants the British government to help remove obstacles to joining the Common Market. A minor difficulty is that there are still 20,000 political prisoners in his jails. Around 500 trade unionists Turkey, a NATO member, recently bought 40 Tornado combat planes worth over $1 billion from the Anglo-German-Italian consortium • Picket the Turkish embassy, Belgrave Square.
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