Word: francos
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...told, the Spanish government spent more than $1,000,000 in an effort to get voters out in force to approve the new constitution presented to them three weeks earlier by Francisco Franco. It was a document that looked to ward the day when Franco will no longer be around, and the regime was taking absolutely no chances that it would be turned down. Any and all arguments against it were relentlessly suppressed. What the Franco government wanted was a simple vote of confidence in the wisdom of El Caudillo...
They got it. In all, 19,289,344 Spaniards-88.5% of the electorate-streamed to the polls, and 95.9% of them voted sí. So overwhelmingly was the vote, in fact, that it embarrassed some of Franco's most ardent admirers. "We could have allowed the opposition to speak and still won 70%," said one Spanish official. "And 70% is a landslide victory anywhere...
Providing an Answer. By far the most important accomplishment of the new constitution, however, is that it provides an answer for the first time to the question that has plagued Spain ever since the civil war: What will happen when Franco dies? As before, his regime will have to choose between a king (most probably Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 53, the liberal-minded pretender to the Spanish throne) and a regent (favored by antimonarchists as a device to turn Spain into a republic). But the new constitution provides some guarantee that the death of Franco...
...abroad been translated into political rebellion at home. On the contrary, it usually fires the patriotism of a beleaguered citizenry. In the case of Cuba, the U.S. embargo supplied Castro with the perfect excuse to explain to the Cuban people the failures of his revolution. The U.N. boycott of Franco Spain, which lasted from 1945 until 1950, led Spaniards to tighten their belts and close ranks behind him. Like the members of a quarreling family, they simply would not tolerate outside meddling in their own affairs. There is every indication that Rhodesia's embattled whites feel the same...
Barbara certainly did, but her special checking account registered near zero. To the rescue came her room mates, Mimi Feldt and Vivian Franco. Their solution: a party with a slogan: "Send Sobo to Spain!" By the hundreds, their dittoed orange invitations fluttered out over the District of Columbia: "The pleasure of your company is requested at a benefit party. Free beer and setups provided, plus band. Your contribution (of $1) will further the cause of international relations...