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That is not necessarily the view of the Spanish Communist Party-probably the best organized of Spain's illegal political groups. From its four-room Paris headquarters-in-exile, Party Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo keeps in touch with an estimated 12,000 active members in Spain by couriers and a constantly changing network of "safe" telephones. Carrillo has repeatedly voiced his opposition to Juan Carlos. "The Prince is, in effect, the son of Franco," the Secretary recently told TIME Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers. "All Franco's structures will have to disappear, including Juan Carlos. If the people...
Even the Communists do not demand an immediate radicalization of Spanish society. Unlike Portugal's hard-lining Stalinist party boss, Alvaro Cunhal, Carrillo claims that he favors a democratic, pluralistic state that would permit basic freedoms. The Communists are in a good position to push their program: they have heavily infiltrated the legal trade union movement, the clandestine comisiones obreras and groups of lawyers, doctors and engineers...
...fails to bring the Socialists into the government, the Communists may also try to woo them into an opposition national-front movement. "If Juan Carlos does not offer change and change quickly," warned a party official last week in Madrid, "he will be consigning himself to oblivion." From Paris, Carrillo was blunter, vowing "a wave of terror that will lead to a new civil war" if the hard-line rightists retain control of the government...
...purpose behind last weekend's meeting in Stockholm between Soares and Western Europe's leading Social Democrats, who have given his party modest financial support. Soares has also developed good relations with such pragmatic Communist bosses as Italy's Enrico Berlinguer and Spain's Santiago Carrillo, who are wary of Cunhal's Stalinist tendencies. The Soviet Union and other East European nations have been more active in supplying the Communists with funds. Estimates of the amount range from an implausibly high $120 million a year to a more realistic $15 million...
...hear his views on Iberian politics, Otto Fuerbringer, Editor of Magazine Development for Time Inc., and Europe Bureau Chief William Rademaekers visited Carrillo in his cottage in the Paris suburbs...