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...Franco mainly because he will be a more docile King than his father, Don Juan, 59, would be. Even so, the heir apparent is liberal enough so that some conservatives within Franco's National Movement, or ruling party, are already considering an alternative. He is Don Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre, 36, who has the additional advantage of being Franco's grandson by marriage and the father of the Leader's only great-grandchild. Two weeks ago to mark the christening in the Pardo Palace chapel of infant Francisco Borbón Mart...
...upheaval that could follow more than three decades of one-man rule. Six years ago, to be sure, he did draw up a "law of succession." Under that law and codicils added to it last July, el Caudillo will be succeeded by two men. Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 34, grandson of Alfonso XIII, the last Spanish monarch, will be crowned King and chief of state. The head of government will be Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, 69, a Franco crony...
...created the SEC-three lawyers from Wendell Willkie's old Wall Street firm and a gaggle of shadowy American, European and Latin financiers. Involved on the fringes of the case, though not named in the complaint, are Costa Rican President José ("Pepe") Figueres, Spanish Prince Gonzalo Borbón y Dampierre, and Donald A. Nixon, 26-year-old nephew of the President...
Married. María del Carmen Martinez-Bordíu Franco, 21, eldest granddaughter of Generalissimo Francisco Franco; and Don Alfonso de Borbón y Dampierre , 35, diplomat and grand son of Spain 's last king, Alfonso XIII; in Madrid...
Last week Spaniards watching television coverage of the prince's first state visit to the U.S. (there were three previous unofficial tours) got a somewhat different picture of their future king. Away from Franco's tight leash, the handsome Borbón, accompanied by his pretty, Greek-born wife Princess Sophia, impressed official Washington as conscientious and thoroughly charming. Officially, the aim of the trip was to return President Nixon's October visit to Madrid. The real motive was to refurbish Spain's tarnished image in the wake of the Burgos trials. Sending Franco himself certainly...