Word: gregorios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among those most likely to go: pro-American Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, who was responsible for Spain's diplomatic recognition of East Germany and China, and Justice Minister Tomas Garicano Gofti, who evidently fell from favor when he ordered police not to use firearms during this year's May Day demonstrations. One policeman died in ambush, triggering a later protest by Spanish police...
...army and Opus Dei. Sometimes called "God's Octopus," Opus Dei is a mystical network of Catholic laymen and clerics whose members combine spiritual discipline with temporal progress. They have had great influence on Spain. Many of the government's technocrats and statesmen belong, including Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo and Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó. If that group came to power, it would likely protect traditional values and at the same time press for moderate reform. Its members are best qualified to position Spain in modern Europe...
...crowned King, probably before the end of the year. Vice President Luis Carrero Blanco, 68, will inherit political power for a transitional period. But the man who will likely shape post-Franco Spain will be either Planning Minister Laureano LÓpez RodÓ, 50, or Foreign Minister Gregorio LÓpez Bravo...
Rumors began circulating several weeks ago, when Foreign Minister Gregorio Lopez Bravo arrived in San Sebastian, Spain's summer capital. Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Chief of State, was vacationing on his yacht at Vigo and had summoned Lopez Bravo to discuss a restoration of the monarchy after a lapse of 40 years. The step is part of Franco's deliberate attempt to relinquish gradually his absolute powers. In July 1969, as the first move in that direction, the Caudillo named Juan Carlos to be Prince of Spain. Next, Franco overhauled the Spanish Cabinet, substituting younger, more moderate personalities...
...Unsettled by stories of police torture and by the fact that two of the defendants are priests. Spain's complacent and pro-Franco bishops united in a plea for "maximum clemency." Even more distressing to the regime were leaked reports that high Spanish officials, among them Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, the center of Spain's Catalan autonomy movement, officials demanded that Abbot Cassia Mauro just throw them...