Word: carrero
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...seems to be no bridge at all between those Spaniards born after the Civil War, who hope to slowly modernize the country, and those born before it, who adhere to the rigid ideals of 81-year-old Dictator Francisco Franco. In the wake of the assassination of President Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque extremists last month, the chasm seems likely to grow wider still...
...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...
...example to possible troublemakers, the government gave savage 12-to 20-year sentences to ten leftists convicted of organizing underground labor unions. To show that the state was secure and that the plot against Carrero Blanco had been uncovered, the Seguridad announced within 48 hours the results of its investigation. It pinpointed six members of the Basque separatist organization, the E.T.A., who it said were involved in the assassination...
...escaped to France, where an E.T. A. spokesman in Paris explained to the daily Figaro: "Our first idea was not to kill Admiral Carrero Blanco, but to kidnap him and exchange him for our political prisoners.* El Caudillo doesn't interest us any longer. An attempt against him would have made sense 30 years ago. We wanted now to demolish the edifice provided for the succession, and I think we succeeded...
...none of the plotters was even in Spain at the time of the assassination. According to this source, the real killers were other members of the E.T.A.'s military branch, or so-called Fifth Wing. They had taken a basement room near a point traveled every day by Carrero Blanco's car and had dug a tunnel 20 feet under the road. They planted three explosive charges of nearly 40 lbs. each under the street, timed to explode at intervals of a tenth of a second to match the movement of the President...