Word: franco
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Though often well entrenched in the Spanish economy, the Basques continue to regard the Franco regime as an illegitimate usurper of their ancient liberties. They fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-when for a few months an autonomous Basque Republic existed-and ever since they have been regarded by the Madrid government as a potential source of unrest. Though several have achieved high national positions, none of the civil or military governors of the four provinces are Basque. The Guardia Civil, a branch of the national security police, is concentrated more heavily in those provinces than...
Basque dislike of outside control is also reflected in the Roman Catholic Church. Nationalistic Basque priests, who rarely rise much in the hierarchy, are often at odds with the Franco-approved bishops and oppose the close identification of the church leadership with the regime...
...captured from the police or bought in Sweden and Czechoslovakia. Most Basques have scant interest in the E.T.A.'s brand of terrorism. But though unlikely to achieve its ultimate goal of Basque independence, the E.T.A. is today the group with the greatest ability to create serious trouble for Franco's regime. It has proved that it can strike when and whom it pleases, and it clearly intends to make more trouble for the Madrid government...
...days Dictator Francisco Franco labored over one of the most momentous decisions of his career. Not only was the 81-year-old Caudillo appointing a successor to President Luis Carrero Blanco, who was assassinated by Basque terrorists, but he was probably naming as well his own successor as the guiding hand of Spain in the fast-approaching post-Franco...
...Franco chose more-perhaps much more-of the rigid policies that have governed the country since its Civil War. The new President will be Carlos Arias Navarro, 65, who was Spain's top cop as head of the Dirección General de Seguridad, the national security police, from 1957 to 1965. After that he became mayor of Madrid and last June he was made Interior Minister, in charge of state security, in Carrero Blanco's Cabinet. A harsh advocate of law-and-order, he has a wide following among the ultra-right wing, which criticized even...