Word: fraga
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...provincial authorities, government-sponsored labor unions and associations of businessmen. Forty will be members for life. The King will still have sole authority to choose a Premier, but his choice must come from three names submitted to him by the right-wing-dominated regency council, said Interior Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 53, who planned the constitutional changes...
...still depressing examples of repression in Spain (a claimed 700 political prisoners, 291 of them accused of terrorism). Basques, Catalans and striking workers carrying on illegal political demonstrations can expect head bashings from Spain's 65,000-man civil guard and 40,000 armed police, who are under Fraga's control. "If the opposition wants to make trouble in the streets," warns Fraga, "I will give it back to them." Generally, however, the police crackdown seems to be selective, and members of the so-called Bunker, a term Spaniards borrowed from English to denote Franco-era hardliners...
Juan Carlos' public pronouncements have been few and bland. Nonetheless, there are encouraging signs that the King may be a good deal less cautious than either Fraga or Arias, a timid holdover from Franco's days who is probably too venerable and rigid to be the kind of Premier that Juan Carlos needs at such a critical time. The King apparently recognizes that if Spain swings too far left too swiftly, there would be no returning, but in no sense is he acting as a brake on change in Spanish life. On the contrary, he evinces a certain...
Though the day-to-day running of the country remains in the hands of Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, an old Franco trusty, and Interior Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Juan Carlos has made an effort to dissociate himself from Franco's "political baggage," as they say in Spain. The Communists reject his regime as one "imposed by Franco from the tomb," but claim that they would cooperate with Juan Carlos' father Don Juan if the latter were restored. For his part...
...principal task is to propose a slate of three candidates from among whom Juan Carlos will ultimately choose his own Premier. By replacing aging and unreconstructed rightists on the council, Juan Carlos could in effect select his own candidate ahead of time. Among the leading possibilities are Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 53, a center rightist and former Minister of Tourism; and José Maria de Areilza, Count of Mortrico, 65, a monarchist and former ambassador to Washington...