Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year after Francisco Franco's death, the rubber-stamp parliament in Madrid moved Spain along the road to democracy in a curious way-by voting itself out of existence. After three days of sometimes emotional debate, the Cortes overwhelmingly approved (425 to 59, with 13 abstentions) the government's political reform bill (TIME, Nov. 1), thereby promising Spain a Western-style democracy for the first time in 40 years. Under the provisions of the law, a bicameral legislature (a 350-member elected congress of deputies and a 207-member senate) will replace the present Cortes, in which less...
Petrovek's buddies include returning starters Jon Schuster, Kevin O'Donoghue and Jim Trainor, sophomore Franco Scalamandre and freshmen John Hughes and Bob Fowkes. There is so much depth on the blue line, in fact, that Jim Liston and Bob Leckie, regulars a year ago, are not even dressing for tomorrow night's opener at Vermont...
John the Baptist had some difficult days. So did-on a modest scale-Michael York, who plays the prophet's role in Franco Zeffirelli's The Life of Jesus. "We shot the prison scenes in a real dungeon in a castle in Tunisia," recalls York. "I spent the day actually chained to the wall. It wasn't hard to feel the part." For his final scene at King Herod's banquet, of course, York could appear only in the form of an elaborately made-up piece of sculpture, which enabled him to observe...
...double is assassinated, the dictator in effect attends his own funeral where, Garcia Márquez writes, "he saw with a hidden uneasiness those who had only come to decipher the enigma of whether it really was or was not he ..." He soon sets them straight and, like Francisco Franco, seems to go on forever, despite rumors of failing health and imminent demise. Even when he really is found dead, the people cannot be sure...
...also true that some "Chicago boys" are in exile and are not working for the Junta. (By the way, most of these Chilean economists were not direct students of Friedman, not that it matters.) The issue is not all that black and white. If you were a plumber in Franco Spain and were called to unstop plugged-up toilets in a political prison, would you refuse to do that because it would shore up the system? The moral issues of collaboration are not all that clear cut. People might think that they are working for Chile even while they...