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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...
Spain. Fulbright said that he had no basic quarrel with the contents of the five-year agreement signed last week by Secretary of State William Rogers and Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Gregorio López Bravo; in fact, he added, he would probably vote for it if it were submitted to the Senate as a treaty to be ratified. But that had not been done, and that is what irked Fulbright...
...under a restored monarchy. El Caudillo apparently listened when Carrero Blanco and López Rodó pointed out to him that the competent Opus Dei technocrats would do less boat-rocking than the Falangists. As a result, technocrats got key posts in the new Cabinet announced last week. Gregorio López Bravo, 45, the former Minister of Industry, was promoted to Foreign Minister. Technocrats also took over the finance, commerce, industry, housing, information and tourism posts...
...Cover: Oil on canvas by Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 48, a Mexican-born Texan and onetime protege of Peter Hurd and Andrew Wyeth, who makes his first appearance in TIME...