Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aggressor. He announced also that NATO will not get back the two NATO-committed French divisions that were diverted to Algeria. Explained De Gaulle: "It is absolutely necessary to have our army more closely knit into the nation." ADENAUER, though anxious at almost any price to preserve Franco-German amity, is mistrustful of De Gaulle's nuclear ambitions and resents his carping...
With support from the Benelux nations and. if they are admitted, her former "Outer Seven" trading partners-Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland-Britain would obviously challenge the present Franco-German dominance of the Common Market. With all those countries included, the result may be a "Big Europe," many Common Market partisans fear, bound by commercial rather than political ties and in danger (as Adenauer puts it) of "growing so fat that it bursts...
...Through the sunny streets strolled some 5,500 Spanish monarchists, all hopeful that the marriage was an omen for the return of the Bourbons to Spain. But absent was the commoner who alone could decide whether Juan Carlos would ever take the Spanish throne: Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Far from the hoopla in Athens, El Caudillo was in Spain last week dealing with the most serious unrest to beset his 24-year rule...
Civic Exercise. The strikers began boycotting shops, and a Communist radio station in Prague beamed encouragement to them. Worried by the draining of some $200 million from the Spanish economy, Franco finally declared a state of emergency. To the three northern provinces of Asturias, Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya, he rushed reinforcements of armed police and civil guard units, partially suspended the fuero (the Spanish bill of rights). Said one Spaniard: "The only time we ever hear about the fuero is when it's suspended...
...Indolence. The strikes finally unnerved Franco. Canceling a long-planned fishing vacation, he tarried in Madrid and discussed proposals to end the walkout. He balked at bowing completely to the strikers' demands, but he was expected to order across-the-board wage readjustments to head off further trouble...