Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting of international Communist leaders in Spain? Nothing like it had happened in 40 years, and it was almost enough to bring that old anti-Communist crusader, Francisco Franco, dead scarcely a year, right back from his tomb in the Valley of the Fallen...
Says Richard N. Gardner, Ambassador-designate to Italy and a close Carter adviser: "We've been in bed with some of the worst regimes in the world." Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal and Greece under the junta are infamous examples. Others...
After a 34-year exile in France, Sebastián Resales illegally re-enters the Spain of 1973. A veteran of the losing side in the Spanish Civil War, Resales must dodge Franco's police if he hopes to reach his native village to the south, in Andalusia. He has little money and no nostalgia for the scenes of past battles. All Resales possesses is macho dignity and the bitter sense that "he had been robbed of 37 years of his life-his life in the Alpujarras-by some stupid idea, some cause. What a stupidity...
Identical Abduction. Exacerbating the climate of crisis was another shock the same day: Lieut. General Emilio Villaescusa Quilis, 64, head of the special military tribunal that was used in Franco's days to try major political offenders, was kidnaped in broad daylight. The general was grabbed by unidentified gunmen in front of his apartment house, bundled into his Mercedes and whisked away into captivity. The operation was almost identical to the abduction Dec. 11 of right-wing Industrialist Antonio Maria de Oriol y Urquijo, president of an advisory council to Spain's head of state. Oriol...
...including Mariano Sanchez Covisa, a leader of the Guerrilleros (who was later released), 15 non-Spaniards and several members of extreme left groups. The government deported another 70 foreigners, many of them from among the hundreds of right-wing fanatics who had found a haven in Spain during the Franco...