Word: franco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presenting his new Cabinet last week for the approval of the country's venerable Chief of State Francisco Franco, 80, he proved precisely that...
Overall, the admiral's crew seemed to represent a sharp turn away from the Europe-oriented Cabinet of technocrats installed by Franco 3½ years ago. Behind the changes, aside from Franco's wish to drop some of the day-to-day routine, was pressure from the right, which was unhappy with López Bravo's foreign policy...
What surprised them more than the appointment of Carrero Blanco was the fact that Franco had finally come to a decision. The admiral has been Franco's closest crony and top subordinate for many years, and has served his leader in government posts ever since the end of the Civil War in 1939. The two men share similarly hostile views toward liberalism, socialism and Communism. Spaniards say that Carrero Blanco "is more Franco than Franco himself." The author of several works on naval history, stocky, black-browed Admiral Carrero Blanco once summed up his feelings on political change this...
...major policy changes were expected, but there was speculation that the armed forces and the Falange -Franco's oldtime political party, now absorbed into the National Movement, as Spain's one legal party is called -would rise in influence. Carrero Blanco is believed to maintain an affection for veteran Falangists who fought long ago for Franco; he may well decide that it is time for them to be allowed to reassert themselves. Correspondingly, the power of technocrats affiliated with the modernist, religio-political movement known as Opus Dei might decline...
...reshuffle was expected to have little effect on the position of Prince Juan Carlos, 35, who was named by Franco in July 1969 to be his eventual successor as chief of state. Who was the prince's chief mentor in his long training to assume the throne...