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...five instances, and said there may have been others, in which he modified facts. By far the most troubling episode was a December 1961 "Letter from Barcelona" in which Reid described Spaniards sitting in "a small, flyblown bar," jeering openly at a televised speech by the then Dictator Francisco Franco. In fact, the bar as described no longer existed at the time of the broadcast, and Reid watched Franco's address in the home of the establishment's onetime bartender. Two of the main characters in the article were composites; some opinions supposedly voiced by Spaniards were Reid...
...pessimism is not the stuff of Juan Carlos's reign, as the king likes to say himself. He has time to cement the transition. Says Marichal of the king's reign thus far, "Probably even Franco would be surprised...
That Juan Carlos is seen now as the architect of Spain's transition and has achieved such international recognition is mildly amazing, considering his enigmatic presence at the time of Franco's death. Opponents called him a puppet, a tin soldier. They chided him for walking well behind the 5 ft.-3 in, general so as not to embarrass him with his courtly 6 ft.-2 in. frame. He was once called "the son Franco never had." Wags named him "Juan the Brief" because his public statements were short and infrequent...
What was most readily assessible was his princely biography. At age ten, Franco had negotiated a deal with his father Don Juan, the pretender to the throne, to raise the boy. He graduated from Sargossa Academy, the Spanish West Point, and spent a year at both the naval and air schools. He is the only man commissioned in all three service branches...
...television's New York Bureau. "Those have completely disappeared." The common thinking today is that as prince Juan Carlos could not risk his position as successor to assure his critics. "He was playing a role," says Calaf, adding. "He didn't want to appear as a danger to the [Franco] regime...