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...transfer of power to Juan Carlos was frustrated two years ago. While he had long wanted the Prince to have the title of head of state, el Caudillo also intended that the regime's authoritarian rule should be carried on by his closest friend, the ultraconservative Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, who for seven years had served as Franco's subservient Vice President. Thus in 1973 Franco transferred his titles of President and head of government to Carrero Blanco, 70, who presumably would have become the real power behind Juan Carlos after Franco's death. That plan died...
After the death of Carrero Blanco, Franco spent most of his time behind the walls of El Pardo Palace, a luxurious retreat on the fringes of Madrid built by King Charles V in 1543. Except for occasional fishing trips aboard his yacht the Azor or official visits to the Valley of the Fallen, a monumental Civil War Memorial that was at one time intended to serve as his tomb, Franco rarely emerged from his palace. Even the fishing trips must have become a dispiriting confirmation of the mortality he hated to acknowledge, a further assault on the pride he took...
...E.T.A. cell that assassinated Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's last Premier, in Madrid...
...yacht that was never anchored in the same harbor for more than one night. It was suspected that plotters out to restore another right-wing dictatorship were trying to kill him. Authoritarian regimes are no proof against violence. Political terrorists in Spain dynamited a car carrying Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973, killing him, and only painstaking security has permitted General Francisco Franco to reach his 82nd year. Franco always rides in bulletproof cars along unannounced routes at top speed. During his rare public appearances, the security guards sometimes outnumber the audience...
...Luis Carrero Blanco, whom Franco had designated "the bridge for the succession." Although respected for his integrity, Arias does not really have Franco's ear and thus finds it hard to control the Cabinet factions. His major innovation-an aperturismo, or opening, of the political process-was to have allowed a spectrum of parties to organize. But because the law in effect gave the Falange power to decide which parties were permissible, the offer failed to attract any new groups...