Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Southern Socialists clearly viewed the alliances as a necessity, not an ideal. Spain's Felipe Gonzalez ruled out an exclusive Socialist-Communist partnership in his country, preferring a broader coalition that could include progressive Catholics and anyone else seeking a "democratic rupture" in post-Franco Spain (see story page 42). Manuel Alegre, deputy head of the Portuguese Socialist Party, charged that Cunhal's Communists in Lisbon "conduct themselves like a party from another planet and another...
...There is a new situation in Southern Europe," says Robert Pontillon, national secretary of the French Socialist Party. "There is a dynamism on the left, but we can't reach power without an alliance with the Communists. Unless the U.S. wants to deal only with the likes of Franco and the Greek colonels, Kissinger must admit the reality of Southern Europe, including large Communist parties...
...will have democracy for all," declared Spanish Premier Carlos Arias Navarro in a nationally televised speech to Spain's Parliament. Arias was outlining a program for political change that had been anxiously awaited since the death of Dictator Francisco Franco last November. Although some of the promises in the speech sounded grand, it was clear that the "democracy" Arias spoke of would not be for all and would come very slowly...
...opens a rude and funny parody of the nation's newscasters with "I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not." His news breaks are bizarre: "Vandals broke into the Louvre and attached arms onto the Venus de Milo." His favorite long-running story is: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still seriously dead...
...Franco cannot be blamed for the recession that has engulfed Spain along with the rest of the industrialized world, but he had no program to combat it. Investment in industry fell 10% last year, and by official estimate national production rose a bare 1% (by some outside estimates it declined 1%). About 700,000 Spanish workers, or 5.4% of the labor force, are jobless. Another 8% or so have had to seek work abroad, and other European countries are now telling their "guest workers" to go home. Rising oil prices have exacerbated Spain's already unhealthy payments deficit. Pressure...