Word: generalissimoing
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...actuality blends into commentary. The results are often closer to truth than mere news reports. A week ago, for instance, a presidential aide was complaining in Doonesbury that the congressional report on CIA assassination plots did not give the agency proper credit for bumping off Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco last fall: "He was giving us some trouble over our bases in Spain, so in 1963 one of our agents poisoned him with a time-release capsule. It reached full potency last November." "Really? ... That's amazing," says an incredulous Ford. "Have there been other successes?" Mutters...
...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...