Word: caudillo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is no guarantee that Don Juan will ever get the call. A believer in representative government, he has never approved of Franco, and for good reason refuses to live in Spain: he does not want to be under the shad ow of the Caudillo. As a result, he is cordially distrusted by many Franco stalwarts. Much more manageable, they feel, would be Don Juan's handsome son, Prince Juan Carlos, 27; Franco sent him through Spain's three military academies and gave him a Madrid palace after his wedding to Greek Princess Sophie. Trouble is, Juan Carlos...
Warring Factions. Whoever, and whatever, comes after Franco will not have an easy time of it. Since the civil war, Franco has been the absolute authority in a land whose citizens are by nature anarchists. The keynote of his rule has been "paz social," but even the wily Caudillo has been hard-pressed at times to keep peace amid the warring factions that have made up his regime...
...more delighted at all the bustle than Francisco Franco, the stubby (5 ft. 3 in.) Galician general who is now in his 30th year as "Caudillo (literally: commander or headman) of Spain by the Grace of God." And quite probably, no one is more surprised. For until six years ago, Spain was isolated from most of the world, brooding, stewing in its evaporating juice. Foreign investment was unwanted and restricted, and Franco was as openly anticapitalist as he was antiCommunist. Spanish industries, creaking and featherbedded, stumbled along behind trade barriers that kept most foreign products out entirely and imposed rigid...
They had to listen carefully. Looking spry and fit in a dark grey business suit, the Caudillo told a nationwide radio and television audience that he wanted peace on earth, social progress, economic advancement and Gibraltar-where, he warned, Spain was "not disposed to tolerate passively" continued British rule. He also advised Spanish girls to stay in Spain instead of risking "exploitations, swindles and abuses in big foreign cities...
Relations with the Communist bloc are also thawing. Although the Caudillo has not gone so far as to establish diplomatic contact, Spain has opened commercial offices in both Budapest and Warsaw, and allowed Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria to send trade missions to Madrid. Spanish soccer teams often entertain Russian opponents these days, even though it means flying the hammer and sickle over Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. The Catholic newspaper Ya, which, like the rest of the Spanish press, had for more than two decades been forbidden to publish a Russian dateline, last month opened its own Moscow...