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...Spaniards have long scanned the official press for clues as to which of the Borbóns Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 75, might pick to fill the long-vacant throne. Monarchist activists pin their hopes on exiled Pretender Don Juan, 55, a moderate who favors evolution toward parliamentary democracy. Many Falangist regulars lean toward his son, Juan Carlos, 30, in the belief that the carefully schooled younger man would prove willing to stick with the regime's less flexible principles...
Paradoxically, Ridruejo's Falangist past works for him rather than against him. Whatever feelings of personal guilt he may have, he is not subject to ridicule by his compatriots. He is afforded only the greatest respect being an especially venerated figure among the young...
Modicum of Affluence. Even before they were granted the right to strike, the workers' lot had been gradually improving. Under pressure from the boss of its own sindicatos, a labor-minded Falangist named José Solís Ruiz, the regime has raised the minimum wage twice in the past ten years, from 60? a day to $1.40. And that is only a starting point. Most Spanish workers also take home incentive pay, family allowance and a variety of other fringe benefits that boost their average income to between $4 and $7 a day. Their paychecks stretch a long...
...tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue to be selected by the government...
Civil Process. Politically, too, Spain is better off. The political prisons of the civil war have long since been emptied, the fascist fanatics of the old Falangist Party long since suppressed. Police no longer torture political suspects. The old military kangaroo courts have given way to civil process. Censorship has been somewhat relaxed, and editors have been encouraged to discuss subjects unthinkable a decade ago: two papers last year were allowed to call for a legal opposition party, and a slick magazine published an interview with a film director attacking censorship itself...