Word: caudillo
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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...
...more tertulias going at the same time, their participants eagerly trading opinions, rumors and jokes about everything from women to bullfighting, but most often about Franco himself. In one recent cafe joke, Franco asks his seven-year-old grandson what he wants to be when he grows up. "The Caudillo of Spain, just like you, Grandfather," answers the boy. "Don't be ridiculous," huffs Franco. "There's only room for one Caudillo at a time...
...seldom even speaks. Seated in his high-backed chair at the head of the table, the Caudillo allows his ministers to do most of the talking, cuts in only to ask a question, change the subject-or announce his decision. There is no nonsense about majority rule in Franco's Cabinet. The only vote that counts is Franco...