WHEN a general talks of the army stepping in to uphold a country's territorial integrity,any democrat should worry.When the country is Spain,which emerged from Franco's dictatorship only 30 years ago and saw off an attempted coup as recently as 1981,the worries should multiply.That is why Spain's government was right to arrest General Jose Mena Algado,head of the Spanish army,last weekend,after he said publicly that Catalonia's new constitutional statute,which gives it both more autonomy and recognition as a "nation",might necessitate military intervention.He cited article 8 of the Spanish constitution,which gives the army a mis-
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