19 people were detained on Sunday when police in Vigo intercepted 1 ton of cocaine with a street value of 12,000 million pesetas and brought down the main Galician drug trafficking operation. The haul was discovered aboard fishing boat " San Jose II " which had been renamed "Anita" specifically for the operation.The cocaine, originating in Columbia, was put on board the vessel in Barbados on 4 October. It then travelled to Togo, West Africa and then on to Galicia.The seizure was the culmination of a year's police investigation in to this Galician drug ring which involved 28 companies and households from Almeria and Cáceres to Galicia. Among the detained was an ex Guardia Civil officer. Authorities expressed their satisfaction at what they claim to be the dismantling of the major drug trafficking and money laundering network in Galicia.

Former President of the Government, Felipe Gonzalez will not be called to testify in the investigations into the "dirty war" against ETA, the Basque Separatist group. Neither will former deputy president, Narcis Serra nor José Maria Benegas, former Socialist Party Secretary. A board of ten judges voted by six to four against any further inquiries. Attorney General Juan Ortiz Urculo warned, however, that Gonzalez cannot be fully certain that he will never be investigated, saying that if new evidence came to light, the former president could still face questions over his alleged part in the spate of assasinations of suspected ETA members carried out by the illegal Anti-Terrorist Liberation Groups (GAL) in the mid-1980s.

40 members of the congregation and members of "Plataforma del 0.7%" staged a sit-in in Madrid's "La Almudena" cathedral on Sunday. Their actions were to highlight the problems in the third world, particularly those of Zaire at the present time and to press the government to comply with the 0.7% payment of State funds as official aid to third world countries, which was agreed last year.

The federation of private primary schools (La Federación Empresarial de Centros Infantiles) has requested state aid in order to comply with the re-designed school system and curriculum (LOGSE). This was the outcome of the first National Congress of Professionals in Primary Education held in Alicante. The federation comprises 6,000 member schools throughout Spain which represents 80% of all centres involved in this sector of the education system.

The theatre group "Tubo de Escape" (Exhaust Pipe) is currently touring Andaluz prisons performing "Las cuatro estaciones" by Rafael Mendizábal. The difference about this theatre group is that it is the first of its kind in Spain. Its actors are all prisoners from Seville's prison who are serving long sentences mainly for robbery and/or drug trafficking. Its brainchild and director is Javier Pino, qualified in Dramatic Art and now in charge of theatre workshops in the prison. Up until recently the group performed soley for their own inmates, an audience which varied little. However, it was agreed to take the project to other parts of Andalucia, albeit under armed guard, in the hopes that it could have a beneficial effect on other detainees. So far, noone has taken up the acting profession since leaving prison, indeed the majority have returned to their old ways. However, some have been influenced enough to reject their previous activities and to study for a new career.

The visit on Wednesday of Jose Maria Aznar, President of the Government to Bilbao and the Basque country was both historic and warmly received. It was the first official visit to Euskadi in the last 16 years and it was warmly received by the Partido Nacional Vasco (the national Basque party). During his visit the President's main message was that the government would enter into talks with ETA if and only when they gave up their arms and put an end to terrorist violence. He also stressed that the recent financial concessions to the Basque country were not a privilege but a singular and historic event and he criticised the irresponsibility of those who had attacked the agreement which had been made between the government and the Basque region.

"Now is not the time to go - the people will only suffer more" These were the words of Spanish Salesian monks José Luis Martínez and Esteban Ortega who are in Goma in east Zaire where they are doing all they can to help avoid more human catastrophy. They are not the only Spaniards at the heart of the tragedy. El Pais correspondent, Alfonso Armada has also managed to locate another Salesian, six Carmelites and a Sister of Charity.