Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite these sanguine bulletins, Franco's condition was deteriorating. Thursday night, the eleven physicians attending him announced that he had suffered a relapse and "early signs of cardiac insufficiency had appeared." As this news spread, bars and restaurants in Madrid began closing early; a few groups of youths roamed the capital's streets mournfully chanting, "Franco. Franco. Franco...
...story page 41) and the imminent succession. At the meeting Premier Carlos Arias Navarro continued the search for a consensus that he had begun earlier that week, when he had huddled with leaders of Spain's Establishment-the Movimiento National (the sole party allowed), the military and Franco's family. His goal: to gain enough backing to allow him to tell the enfeebled dictator it was time to step aside. Only the family members and some of Franco's closest and oldest aides refused to concur. When told about the doctors' announcement of Franco...
...transfer of power in a dictatorship is seldom smooth. Yet it is probable that Juan Carlos' authority will not be challenged immediately. "Although many people in the opposition will not accept him because of his close association with Franco," observed Centrist Politician Marcelino Oreja, "most Spaniards want to give him a chance." No one knows for certain, however, whether Juan Carlos has the courage to break with the "bunker"-the group of hardline rightists who were Franco's most loyal backers and can be expected to oppose any realistic political reforms...
...choice of a new government. It is expected that Premier Arias, as a matter of form, will submit his own and his Cabinet members' resignations. A dour former chief of Spain's hated internal-security apparatus, Arias has little personal ambition. "I want to be Franco's last Prime Minister but not Juan Carlos' first one," he once confided to a friend. Nonetheless, if Juan Carlos urges Arias to carry on in office with his ministers, that will be interpreted by the left as a signal that Spain is not about to change very quickly...
...room Paris headquarters-in-exile, Party Secretary-General Santiago Carrillo keeps in touch with an estimated 12,000 active members in Spain by couriers and a constantly changing network of "safe" telephones. Carrillo has repeatedly voiced his opposition to Juan Carlos. "The Prince is, in effect, the son of Franco," the Secretary recently told TIME Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers. "All Franco's structures will have to disappear, including Juan Carlos. If the people decide they want a monarch, then he will be Don Juan"-Juan Carlos' father, who has been living in exile in Portugal...