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Munoz Grandes is one of the few Spaniards with enough authority to hold the country together, for a while, after the end of the Franco regime. Without question, he is a down-the-line Franco supporter. Recently, when the strikes in the Asturias coalfields were at their height, he was prevailed upon against his will to meet with a delegation of Italian journalists. The interview lasted a brief two sentences. "No, gentlemen, the Franco government is not going to fall," he said. "Good afternoon...
...long last, Spain's Francisco Franco faced up to the fact that he is mortal. For 25 years, the Spanish dictator has stubbornly clung to all the reins of power and refused publicly to designate a successor. Last week, giving way to growing pressure for change and acknowledging his 69 years, Franco did what few dictators have the nerve to do: selected an heir apparent. His choice: tough, crusty Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, 66, chief of the Spanish General Staff and an old friend of El Candillo's (see box). Munoz Grandes was named to the newly...
...move enhances the future return of the Bourbons to the Spanish throne, and assures that the army will be able both to maintain its own interests and preserve order on Franco's death. Franco envisages Munoz Grandes, who suffers from both ulcers and heart trouble, not as the future chief of state but only as the head of a caretaker government backed by the strongly monarchist army. "If Franco should die or suddenly fall ill," explained one Franco aide, "Munoz Grandes will be at the head of the government dignitaries waiting at the airport to greet either Don Juan...
Munoz Grandes' appointment was only one change in Franco's first major Cabinet overhaul since 1957. With Spain's application pending for association with the Common Market and with the growing demand for social and economic liberalization in the wake of last spring's crippling strikes, Franco purged the Cabinet of seven reactionary old ministers. The important replacements are younger than their predecessors and more oriented to the economic and political reforms of the New Europe. They include...
...social circles than in the U.S., increased in America around the turn of the century (probably as a result of the waves of immigration from central Europe), and not many Jews have rooted themselves as solidly in the Old Guard as August Belmont (1853-1924), whose name is a Franco-Anglicization of Schoenberg. Roman Catholics are solidly Old Guard in such Catholic-settled cities as New Or leans, St. Louis and Baltimore, but in heavily Catholic Boston they-and therefore the Kennedys-have been far more Out than...