Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opens a rude and funny parody of the nation's newscasters with "I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not." His news breaks are bizarre: "Vandals broke into the Louvre and attached arms onto the Venus de Milo." His favorite long-running story is: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still seriously dead...
Acting on advice from James Q. "Lock 'Em Up" Wilson, his new Minister of Justice, Generalissimo Gorski mines all walkways in the Yard. "We've got to do something about trespassers," he says, "and I'm sick and tired of being Mr. Nice...
...DEATH OF Generalissimo Francisco Franco ten days ago was long overdue. For 36 years Franco subjected Spain to authoritarian rule, maintained by ruthless repression of all civil and political liberties. As much at the end of his reign as immediately after the Civil War, Franco prohibited all political activity outside the official apparatus of his regime, from freedom of the press to the right to strike. He punished offenders unhesitatingly with long prison terms, and in cases when he felt his regime endangered, Franco resorted to public executions, as with Basque separatists earlier this year...
...Died. Generalissimo Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, 82, dictator of Spain since 1939, who once declared himself "responsible only to God and history"; in Madrid (see THE WORLD...
...getting old," he said at a Republican gathering in 1974, "and we'll disappear soon. We won't ever take over." At least one triumph, however, seemed virtually assured to Valera and his fellow veterans. They were close to winning their 40-year struggle to outlive the Generalissimo...