Word: caudillo
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...most of Europe saw it, the death sentences suggested a return to the days when the Franco regime virtually ruled by gun and garrote. Until last Friday, when el Caudillo commuted the death sentence of six other terrorists, one of them a pregnant woman, there had been eleven convicts awaiting execution-the most since 1940. All eleven were sentenced under a new anti-terrorist law enacted in July that makes the death penalty automatic for anyone convicted of killing a policeman...
...physically demanding public performance was clearly designed to demonstrate el Caudillo's remarkable recovery from a near-fatal stroke last summer. Yet even that performance could not overcome Spaniards' feelings that Franco's days in power are numbered-perhaps only until July 18, the anniversary of the Falangist uprising in 1936. From Madrid, Bureau Chief Gavin Scott cabled the following report...
...would be merely crude were it not for the fact that it reflects a deep-rooted bitterness. After 35 years of living under a dictatorial regime notable mostly for its rigid stability, many Spaniards these days are worried about both the erratic course of the Franco regime and el Caudillo 's ability to run the country...
...born a deaf-mute. He eventually learned to speak four languages, led a sybaritic life, mostly in Italy, after his father was forced to abdicate in 1931. Don Jamie renounced his claim to the Spanish throne in 1934, but began having second thoughts in the '50s as aging Caudillo Francisco Franco vacillated between Borbón claimants who he hoped would restore the monarchy. Don Jaime was bested in the regal jockeying by his handsome nephew Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borb...
Died. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 74, Colombian caudillo (1953-57); of a heart attack; in Malgar, Colombia. Installed as President in a bloodless 1953 golpe, Rojas ruled in dictatorial fashion until an appetite for graft (he acquired at least nine ranches as President) eroded army support and led to his ouster in 1957. The next year he returned from exile and became the focus of opposition to the ruling Liberal-Conservative National Front, nearly returning to power in the hotly contested election...