Word: franco
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Spain took another giant step out from the shadow of Francisco Franco last week-and right into the first political crisis of King Juan Carlos' reign. In a move that surprised even his closest aides, Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, 67, went to Madrid's Royal Palace and submitted his resignation to the King. Juan Carlos, according to the constitution, had ten days to choose a new Premier. Last Saturday, he named Adolfo Suárez González, the secretary general of Spain's only legal party, the National Movement. A close friend of the King...
...mournful-looking man with an unctuous public style, Arias himself has had a sometimes troubled relationship with the Bunker. As Franco's last Premier, Arias launched a policy of apertura (opening) that infuriated rightists, even though it involved such modest gestures as allowing free elections in some municipalities and the formation of certain limited political "associations." Nonetheless, he was imposed on the King by the rightists after Franco's death as the only possible compromise choice for Premier...
Pope's best weapons. So far, few have delivered direct pulpit orders to their flocks to vote D.C., as many did in Pius' day. But as Franco Sasso, a parish priest in the southern town of Molfetta, indicated last week to TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof, he would quietly remind parishioners, "When you make your choice, you must be consistent with your faith...
...return for $1.2 billion in grants and credits. Though the treaty is likely to be approved this week, some Senators are unhappy about the size of the aid package and about what they see as Juan Carlos' failure-despite his short tenure-to do more to democratize post-Franco Spain...
Environmental opponents of the Franco-British Concorde have long maintained that the 1,400-m.p.h. aircraft is simply too loud to use U.S. airports. That argument seemed very fragile early last week as the first commercial flights slipped quietly into Washington's Dulles International Airport. But then, the next day, the environmentalists' case against the Concorde revived with a whoosh. Returning to France, one of the $60 million planes took off with an earsplitting roar that re-ignited debate over the plane's noise levels and seemed sure to reinforce resistance that is now keeping the craft...