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...Your article "Murder of the Alter Ego," about the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco [Dec. 31], concludes with the statement: "The aging Franco had only two choices-to liberalize his regime or face the threat of having his country racked by more violence...
...bridge at all between those Spaniards born after the Civil War, who hope to slowly modernize the country, and those born before it, who adhere to the rigid ideals of 81-year-old Dictator Francisco Franco. In the wake of the assassination of President Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque extremists last month, the chasm seems likely to grow wider still...
...chief casualty was Opus Dei, the politically oriented Catholic movement whose members can take much of the credit for modernizing Spain's economy. Carrero Blanco had fired all but one Opus Dei minister. Arias Navarro completed the process last week, replacing the one remaining representative of Opus Dei, Foreign Minister Laureano Lopez Rodó, with Spain's Ambassador to France, Pedro Cortina...
...escaped to France, where an E.T. A. spokesman in Paris explained to the daily Figaro: "Our first idea was not to kill Admiral Carrero Blanco, but to kidnap him and exchange him for our political prisoners.* El Caudillo doesn't interest us any longer. An attempt against him would have made sense 30 years ago. We wanted now to demolish the edifice provided for the succession, and I think we succeeded...
...plotters was even in Spain at the time of the assassination. According to this source, the real killers were other members of the E.T.A.'s military branch, or so-called Fifth Wing. They had taken a basement room near a point traveled every day by Carrero Blanco's car and had dug a tunnel 20 feet under the road. They planted three explosive charges of nearly 40 lbs. each under the street, timed to explode at intervals of a tenth of a second to match the movement of the President...