Word: candillo
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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Trouble is building up again for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Ten weeks after settlement of the first successful strike in El Candillo's 25-year reign, the tough coal miners of Asturias once more were leaving the pits, pressing demands for a five-day week and calling for still more cash to add to their newly won wage increases. At week's end 10,000 workers at 15 mines were...
...week, giving way to growing pressure for change and acknowledging his 69 years, Franco did what few dictators have the nerve to do: selected an heir apparent. His choice: tough, crusty Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, 66, chief of the Spanish General Staff and an old friend of El Candillo's (see box). Munoz Grandes was named to the newly created post of Vice Premier and delegated to take charge of Spain's government in the event of Franco's "vacancy, absence, or illness...
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