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Priming the Pump. Spain's advocates could point out that Franco had really tried. Reluctantly admitting that his country could not achieve economic maturity outside the Common Market, he embarked on a deliberate policy of liberalization. Press censorship was eased; reactionary Falangist ministers were replaced by more open-minded officials; a recent trial of 33 political prisoners was held before a civilian rather than a military court-and some prisoners were even acquitted...
Spaniards who tuned in on news broadcasts last week got the surprise of a quarter-century. Since Francisco Franco installed himself as Spain's dictator in 1938, every newscast had unfailingly ended with a ponderous salute to his Falangist Party and a martial rendition of the Falangist anthem. Last week, for the first time, news bulletins ended instead with a pleasant feminine voice bidding señores y señoras good day, followed by a few bars of a catchy paso doble...
...death, but was released in a routine exchange of prisoners. He quickly joined Franco, was soon commanding a corps on the Pyrenees front. At the end of the war, Munoz Grandes, at Franco's behest, became secretary-general of the Fascist Falange, specifically to integrate the freewheeling Falangist militia into the Spanish army...
...right is Young Europe, a few hundred students who feel that Franco is actually too liberal, has abandoned fascism. Somewhere near this crowd are the moribund remnants of the Falange, the onetime fascist party that Franco used to gain power; Falangists today are opportunistic, scattered and weak. At the other extreme, on the far left, are outfits like the Popular Liberation Front, whose Marxist leader has been in jail since 1959. Roughly in the political center are: 1) the Christian Democrats, led by Jose Maria Gil Robles, 63, a prominent Madrid lawyer, and 2) the Liberals, whose spokesman has been...
...minutes the churchgoers battled pro-Castro hecklers. Next day another street fight erupted after a Mass in suburban Miramar to mark the 24th anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Castro wearily hauled himself before the TV cameras to blame "fascist and Falangist" priests for both demonstrations...