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...Carrero Blanco's assassins constructed an elaborate scheme. Posing as sculptors, two men rented a basement room near San Francisco de Borja eight weeks ago and tunneled to a place where the President's car passed every morning. When Carrero Blanco drove by the spot after Mass, the assassins detonated a massive explosive charge, possibly an antitank mine. The explosion was powerful enough not only to kill Carrero Blanco, his chauffeur and bodyguard but to blast a 35-ft. hole in the street and blow parts of the car over the top of the five-story church...
...Carrero Blanco's assassination came as a severe shock to Franco, who for years had counted on him as his right-hand man. The Generalissimo had expected the dour admiral to keep Spain on a rightward course when he himself died and to make certain that his successor as chief of state, Prince Juan Carlos, did not fall prey to liberal ideas. But Carrero Blanco's rigid orthodoxy had made the possibility of violence as predictable as his timetable...
...favored by the Franco regime. Other more minor incidents, like the blowing up of cars, occurred in the following days, and there were reports-probably unfounded-that the Basques were receiving advice and training from the Irish Republican Army. Political observers believed that the ETA was responsible for Carrero Blanco's death; no other group, they said, had the ability to execute such an intricate plot...
Total Loyalty. To all of the protest, Carrero Blanco had only one answer: to either ignore it altogether or break it with force. "Politics for me consists of total loyalty to El Caudillo," he proudly proclaimed. "My loyalty to his person and to his work is total, without a shadow of any personal conditions or a trace of mental reservation." When he took over the reins of day-to-day government six months ago-Franco himself retains ultimate authority-Carrero Blanco quickly replaced those officials he thought were liberal, or even slightly forward looking, with ironclad conservatives. "Carrero Blanco never...
...Carrero Blanco's path was clearly on a collision course with the new reality of an industrialized, modernized Spain...