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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...
...Prince Juan Carlos, 35, waiting patiently in the wings to become King once Franco dies or retires, the new governmental setup offers a small additional degree of political authority. For the first time, he has the ceremonial right to approve new Cabinet members: Carrero Blanco's first act, after taking his oath of office, was to call on Juan Carlos at Zarzuela Palace and submit the list of new ministers. Predictably, there were no princely objections. The prince may now attend Cabinet meetings, another new prerogative. (In the past, he was briefed on discussions.) Most Spaniards who want change...
...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...