Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massive show or police power, the biggest in years, undercut new King Juan Carlos's efforts at liberalization and his pardon order freeing Camacho and a few others serving sentences for "political offenses...
...Juan Marichal, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, said yesterday that this crackdown was symbolic of "a last fight by the remaining fascists to prevent change" and added that it would do little to stave off an eventual collapse of the right...
...obviously a man with a lot on his mind," explained a government official in Madrid. He was accounting for the solemnly noncommittal look on the face of King Juan Carlos I last week as he received the cheers of a crowd almost three times bigger than the one that had seen off Franco's funeral cortege the previous Sunday. Although Queen Sofia seemed to enjoy the adulatory crush of those gathered in Madrid's Plaza de Oriente, the King remained impassive. In the supportive presence of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German President...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop of Madrid. In a televised sermon delivered during the accession ceremonies, Cardinal Tarancón announced the church's intention to speak out "and shout if necessary" to protect human rights and liberties in Spain. The church would demand, he added, that Juan Carlos' government "promote the exercise of adequate freedom for all and the necessary common participation in all the problems and decisions of government...
...Juan Carlos and the men behind him hope that a few minor gestures in the direction of "western-style" democracy will induce Western European countries to admit Spain to the Common Market and to NATO, as they refused when Franco was alive. But at the same time as Juan Carlos urged that "Europe must take Spain into account" he reaffirmed the "right of each people to organize itself politically in accordance with its own nature"--which means that Europe should not expect any substantive change in Spanish politics as a condition for admittance...