Word: caudillo
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...days Dictator Francisco Franco labored over one of the most momentous decisions of his career. Not only was the 81-year-old Caudillo appointing a successor to President Luis Carrero Blanco, who was assassinated by Basque terrorists, but he was probably naming as well his own successor as the guiding hand of Spain in the fast-approaching post-Franco...
...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...
...Leftists. After 34 years of rule by El Caudillo (the leader), Spain is rife with discontent and disaffection. In the past year Franco's regime has been assaulted by dissident priests, workers, students and members of the Basque minority. Only minutes after the assassination, in fact, a trial was scheduled to begin in Madrid of ten leftists who were accused of fomenting strikes...
Total Loyalty. To all of the protest, Carrero Blanco had only one answer: to either ignore it altogether or break it with force. "Politics for me consists of total loyalty to El Caudillo," he proudly proclaimed. "My loyalty to his person and to his work is total, without a shadow of any personal conditions or a trace of mental reservation." When he took over the reins of day-to-day government six months ago-Franco himself retains ultimate authority-Carrero Blanco quickly replaced those officials he thought were liberal, or even slightly forward looking, with ironclad conservatives. "Carrero Blanco never...
...state of health of President Juan D. Perón, 78, long a subject of concern, suddenly took a turn for the worse last week and thus became one more liability for a regime already afflicted with political terrorism and a limping economy. The caudillo was bedridden in his suburban Buenos Aires residence with what was variously described as either the recurrence of a bronchial condition or a mild heart attack. What worried nervous Argentines was that his illness was serious enough to require his wife Isabelita, the Vice President and a former cabaret dancer, to preside over last week...