Word: juan
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...resolution form. This seems to be a delay tactic; Kissinger probably wants to wait until after the shift of power. And sizing up the nature of this shift seems to have been the reason for Ford's visit to Madrid, where he reportedly spent more time with Prince Juan Carlos than with El Caudillo...
Negotiating the pact slowly, during the transition, gives Kissinger two options. If Prince Juan Carlos should prove too weak to stave off inclusion of the left in a coalition, then the U.S. won't be in the "embarrassing" position of having signed a pact giving a left-of-center Spanish government $750 million in military aid and $250 million in economic assistance. And, less likely (but all the more interesting), Kissinger just might wait for a better treaty with a "stable" military junta in Spain...
...Communists Party (PCE), now holding the lion's share of working class support, has yielded to the other parties on a key point: it has withdrawn its opposition to Juan Carlos' accession. In return the other, more centrist, parties have promised the Communists that the PCE's exclusion from the political system--which Juan Carlos has guaranteed to Franco die-hards as well as Washington--will not be tolerated...
...common front, had much to lose by the agreement. The PSOE had previously hoped that several years of illegality for the Communists would give it a chance to make inroads in organizing the working class. The Socialists, in this tactical turnabout, apparently believe that the circle surrounding Juan Carlos will be composed largely of Francoist hard-liners, and that the unity of the left will be necessary to move Spain toward the most basic democratic forms...
...Juan Carlos's government, to stem the effect that inflation is having on the nation's balance of payments, must soon impose economic austerity measures, and this means holding down wages or increasing taxes. Such a policy would probably lead to working class rebellion, especially if Juan Carlos is serious about not legalizing the Communist Party. The PCE, within the political system or even within the government, might have an incentive to try to curb discontent; as a pariah, the party can only gain from economic crisis...