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...Madrid newspapers are owned and edited by Opus Deites, and so are a dozen Spanish magazine and book-publishing houses and the nation's leading independent news service. Three Opus Dei members sit on the privy council of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, the pretender to the Spanish throne, and an Opus Dei priest serves as confessor to Prince Juan Carlos, who is next in line. Moreover, the country's only private university, the Pamplona-based Universidad de Navarra, is an out-and-out Opus Dei institution, and Opus Dei professors are being hired with...
Married. Infanta Maria del Pilar, 30, eldest child of Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, exiled Pretender to the Spanish throne, and sister of Juan Carlos, to whom Franco may one day give the royal nod; and Luis Gómez-Acebo, 32, handsome grandson of a Spanish marquis; in a fittingly royal wedding to which her father invited "any Spaniard who happens to be in Portugal" (some 3,000 responded); in Lisbon...
...constitution, however, is that it provides an answer for the first time to the question that has plagued Spain ever since the civil war: What will happen when Franco dies? As before, his regime will have to choose between a king (most probably Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 53, the liberal-minded pretender to the Spanish throne) and a regent (favored by antimonarchists as a device to turn Spain into a republic). But the new constitution provides some guarantee that the death of Franco, who until now has been virtually the sole and single source of full...
...editorial extolling the virtues of the liberal monarchies of Great Britain, Belgium and The Netherlands that landed A.B.C. in the soup. Instead of following the official attitude that a post-Franco "institutions" of the monarch must Franco regime, maintain the the paper praised Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, chief pretender to the throne, for promoting "a European monarchy, a democratic monarchy, a popular monarchy, a monarchy for all." Such thoughts are apparently still heresy in Franco's liberalized Spain...
...premier Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 52, third son* of Spain's last King, Alfonso XIII, decided to try to clarify the picture. Last week he named the first five members of an eight-man "secretariat" that will function as a sort of cabinet, supplement the 60-man privy council that already advises him, and seek to unify the monarchists. The head of the new secretariat is José Maria de Areilza, the Count of Motrico, who has acted as Franco's ambassador to Argentina, France and the U.S. To improve "domestic relations"-meaning...