Word: franco
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...things are possible in Spain now after the death of Franco," Jorge Guillen, the Spanish poet, said yesterday. Guillen, who left Spain when Generalissimo Francisco Franco came to power, was last week named the recipient of the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award of Spanish-speaking nations...
Guillen has lived in voluntary exile in the United States since the end of the Spanish Civil War, and his works were prohibited in Spain during the Franco regime...
Died. Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 68, Spanish Foreign Minister from 1957 until his ouster during a Cabinet shake-up in 1969; following a heart attack; in Madrid. Tall and powerfully built, Castiella fought with Franco's Blue Division shock troops alongside Nazi forces on the Russian front during World War II. As head of the Foreign Ministry, Castiella earned a reputation as a stubborn negotiator; he repeatedly drove tough bargains with the U.S. over military-base leases and doggedly-though unsuccessfully-strove to retrieve Gibraltar from British rule. Toward the end of his career, Castiella came under increasing...
Last week's decision by the Cortes was the most significant victory yet in the campaign by King Juan Carlos and Premier Adolfo Suárez to move Spain out of the Franco era toward democratic rule. Juan Carlos and the government could have bypassed the conservative Cortes and taken the political reforms directly to the Spanish people by way of a referendum. Last week the government released a poll showing that Spaniards favored passage of the bill by a margin of more than 20 to 1. From the beginning, however, the Suárez government has moved cautiously...
Meanwhile, the government is limiting the right of die-hard Franquistas to keep the memory of el Caudillo alive. It reluctantly granted a request by the archconservative National Veterans Federation to commemorate the first anniversary of Franco's death with a rally in Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. The demonstration consisted of 30 minutes of prayers for Franco, the reading of his last message to Spain and the singing of songs from the Spanish civil...