Word: fraga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regard for the rules of the new game. Socialist González, who favors open-necked shirts and casual jackets, brought American-style campaigning to Spain, jetting about the country to rallies in a chartered plane. Seeking to establish his party as the major alternative, he concentrated his fire on Fraga's Popular Alliance and Suárez's coalition. He charged that 80% of the U.C.D. candidates were interchangeable with those of Fraga's party?like "Pepsi and Coca Cola...
...they accepted the monarchy and its flag?to the point where wags dubbed them el Real Partido Comunista (the Royal Communist Party). The party's freewheeling rallies, including a giant, rain-soaked election-eve bash outside Madrid for more than 200,000 supporters, dazzled much of Spain. By contrast, Fraga's stodgy Alliance held many of its meetings by invitation only...
...Luis R. Fraga '77-3, treasurer of Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, said yesterday the Chicano community celebrates Cinco de Mayo, the fifth of May, as the day Mexico expelled French rule from its borders...
Right-wingers were predictably shocked by the legalization of the party. Some ultrarightists, shouting "Arriba España!" (Up with Spain! the old nationalist rallying cry), rode through Madrid in an auto caravan of their own. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Franco's former Information and Tourism Minister and leader of the powerful rightist party Alianza Popular, thundered, "What has happened is an authentic coup d 'état that has transformed reform into rupture...
Somewhat to the right of the Communists, the Socialist Worker Party may garner close to 20%, while Fraga's rightist, neo-Franquista Alianza Popular is expected to poll a quarter of the vote. The most fluid situation is in the center. There the Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and a broad coalition called Centro Democrático are still discussing whether to enter the election as a bloc. Their decision partly depends on whether Suarez chooses to head such a centrist alliance in order to blunt some of Fraga's appeal. The Premier, however, can sit out the election...