Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spain's feelings for Latin America are no better illustrated than in the refusal of Franco, one of the world's most zealous antiCommunists, to break off relations with Cuba's Fidel Castro. "We have too many Spanish interests to protect to pull completely out of that tormented island," Franco remarked last year. "It is always embarrassing to" deal with Communists; yet we are obliged to maintain some connection with those in Cuba. By so doing, we have protected our citizens there and saved many a Cuban life...
Partridges & Palace. Franco keeps himself remarkably well informed about world affairs, can discuss in detail everything from the importance of NATO to the U.S. presence in Viet Nam. He has become pragmatic about Communism and has made trade agreements with most Iron Curtain countries. "The Iron Curtain has been there for too many years to think that it can come down by a miracle," he said last fall. "We must accept this reality and try to gradually permeate the wall with trickles of trade and cultural contacts. You can't deny that Russian Communism succeeded in making Russia...
Continued Franco: "The Soviets may gradually develop their better qualities and eliminate many of their bad points. More contact with the Western world can influence them favorably and induce them to give some freedom to their people and understand the position
...Francisco Franco Bahamonde has mellowed considerably. The years, and a strict low-calorie diet, have whittled away his girth but not, apparently, his strength. Always an avid sportsman, he now spends almost as much time hunting and fishing as he does in the Pardo, his 16th century palace just north of Madrid. His stamina is remarkable. He can still bound up hillsides after mountain goats, shoot 300 partridges a day, and wade for hours hip-deep in the icy mountain streams of Asturias...
...juice, tea and dry toast, then retires to his private chapel for morning prayers. By 9 he is in his study, reading the Madrid newspapers and the official reports stacked high on his large mahogany desk. The calm does not last long. At midmorning the palace is invaded by Franco's seven grandchildren (ages one to 14). Trailed by their English nanny, they race down the Pardo's wide granite corridors, past six-foot honor guards and enormous Goya tapestries, and burst into his study. Franco idolizes his grandchildren, spends as much time with them as the press...