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...killing continued. José ("Comandante Pepe") Gregorio Liendo Vera, a popular revolutionary who organized peasants in the south of Chile to seize farms, was executed by a military firing squad. Communist Party Leader Luis Corvalán Lepe is on trial on a charge of high treason, which carries the death penalty. All told, 476 people have died-some say as many as 5,000-including one American...
Gone was outward-looking Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, replaced by politically conservative, economically adventurous Laureano López Rodó, formerly Minister of Planning and Development. Out was Interior Minister Tomás Garicano Goñi; replacing him was Madrid Mayor Carlos Arias Navarro, a tough, no-nonsense administrator who was formerly director of security of the National Movement (Spain's sole legal political party...
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...