Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alvaro Cunhal, backed by leftist-minded officers of the ruling junta, has emerged as the most zealous and disciplined political group in the country since the April 1974 revolution. Some observers fear that something comparable may eventually happen in neighboring Spain, where the reactionary government of aging Dictator Francisco Franco totters from crisis to crisis...
...Spaniard visiting Moscow stops at the Kremlin wall, where his Russian host takes him to view Lenin's remains. "We have one like that," shrugs the Spaniard. "But he sits up and talks." That Madrid joke about ailing Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 82, would be merely crude were it not for the fact that it reflects a deep-rooted bitterness. After 35 years of living under a dictatorial regime notable mostly for its rigid stability, many Spaniards these days are worried about both the erratic course of the Franco regime and el Caudillo 's ability to run the country...
Spaniards have grown increasingly restive since Franco reclaimed the powers he briefly relinquished to Prince Juan Carlos, 37, after suffering a near-fatal stroke last summer. The government has grappled uncertainly with the problems assaulting it on all sides. Says one longtime political expert who is now outside Franco's government: "If the present situation is prolonged indefinitely, it will be disastrous...
...Franco's return to power set off a largely behind-the-scenes struggle. Right-wing veterans of the Falange movement warn that if dissidence festers, Spain faces the kind of disorder that they now feel exists in Portugal. Opposed to the Old Guard are reformers who argue that if Spain does not move toward change, discontent will become uncontainable...
...movements. When other Etonians sought upward mobility, Orwell literally immersed himself in dirty water and coal dust to investigate the lives of the dishwasher and the miner. When his peers went up to London to seek careers, he went to Spain as a correspondent and stayed to fight against Franco's troops. When many fellow leftists sang the praises of the Cominform, he was rude enough to point out that "the thing for which the Communists were working was not to postpone the Spanish revolution till a more suitable time, but to make sure it never happened...