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...Prime Minister, 54, a conservative technocrat from one of Spain's most prominent political families, has tried to fill the power vacuum created by the resignation of Adolfo Suarez six weeks ago with what aides describe as "calm preoccupation." He has named a Cabinet of holdovers from the Suarez government, but he has also undertaken a round of consultations with opposition leaders...
Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, a liberal army officer sprang to his feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...
...Calvo-Sotelo, 54, last week went before the Cortes to seek approval for a new minority government.His 75-minute speech contained no bold departures, no ringing calls to greatness. Instead, it was a gingerly tiptoe around the thorny issues-divorce, Basque nationalism, party infighting-that had discouraged his predecessor, Adolfo Suárez, 48, and finally led him to resign. At week's end Calvo-Sotelo lost a first confidence vote but was expected to win on a second try, which Cortes rules allow...
...performance was vintage Juan Carlos: persuasive, a shade theatrical, and courageous. Most of his advisers had urged him not to make the trip in the first place. With the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez only the week before, the country was in the first political crisis of its democratic post-Franco era. No successor to Suárez had yet been named, mainly because the likely choice, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, had failed to receive sufficient support from his party. But most Spaniards seemed confident. They knew that if an effective government emerged from the crisis, much...
Cautious, guarded, deliberate - with those sober qualities, Adolfo Suárez became Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister in two generations...