Word: carrero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accounts, the very model of a modern Spanish admiral. Which is to say that Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Spain's new President, is a conservative to the roots of his beetle brows...
...after the government shifts were announced, the Madrid stock market jumped-a sure sign that Spain's rich and emergent middle class approved Carrero Blanco's emphatic reinforcement of authoritarianism. Other Spaniards-not necessarily all leftists -felt that the regime was on a collision course with reality in trying to ignore the country's yearning for more intellectual and political freedom...
...title of President is somewhat misleading. Carrero Blanco in effect will be Spain's Prime Minister, in charge of the day-to-day operation of the government with the power to name his own Cabinet. Once the present set of ministers resigns, as required by the constitution, he is expected to name several replacements...
...major policy changes were expected, but there was speculation that the armed forces and the Falange -Franco's oldtime political party, now absorbed into the National Movement, as Spain's one legal party is called -would rise in influence. Carrero Blanco is believed to maintain an affection for veteran Falangists who fought long ago for Franco; he may well decide that it is time for them to be allowed to reassert themselves. Correspondingly, the power of technocrats affiliated with the modernist, religio-political movement known as Opus Dei might decline...
...Carrero Blanco...