Word: carrero
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Franco chose the young Juan Carlos to be his figurehead successor mainly because he is docile and malleable. In the event of Franco's death, the real ruler-until Juan Carlos had "matured"-was to have been Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's conservative and like-minded crony who was named Premier last year. But the plan was destroyed when Basque terrorists assassinated Carrero Blanco last December. Though Franco frequently consults Juan Carlos, the prince has no influence on policy, and probably lacks the skill or the military support to hold the country together. Some cynics...
...state," Añoveros wrote, "have the right to conserve their own identity and to cultivate and develop their spiritual heritage within a sociopolitical system that recognizes their liberty to do so." In the context of Spanish politics, those were daring words indeed. Madrid vividly remembers that Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's closest colleague and Arias' predecessor as Premier, was killed by Basque bomber-terrorists as he emerged from daily Mass. But Añoveros went on to regret that "sometimes people, or to say it better, their ruling classes, can succumb to the temptation of sacrificing...
...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...
...Carrero's successor, Carlos Arias Navarro, last week drastically reshuffled the Cabinet, throwing out the technocrats in favor of men, mostly in their 50s and 60s, who are known mainly for their: fanatical loyalty to el Caudillo. "They are a group of gray men whose thinking stopped with the Civil War in 1936," laments an opposition spokesman. "They are a very dull...
...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...