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...with the Caudillo at the anniversary celebrations last week, will be 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...
...Necessarily Liberal. The leading member of the group is Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó, 48. A onetime administrative law professor. López Rodó is a protégé of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, who is Vice President and one of the few men Franco really trusts. He is also the probable choice for Premier 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...
Privy Council. Franco appears to have submitted practically all of Spain's economy to the hands of Opus Dei. Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó, Minister of Commerce Faustino Garcia-Monco, Minister of Industry Gregorio López Bravo, Central Bank Governor Mariano Navarro Rubio and Ambassador to the Common Market Alberto Ullástres are all members. Spain's sixth largest private bank (Banco Popular Espaňol) is owned almost solely by Opus Dei members, and they reportedly control 13 other banks and insurance companies, 16 real estate and construction firms...
...booming economy. To help it along, Franco was persuaded to go on to an even more ambitious four-year development plan. At the heart of the plan are the seven development "poles" scattered throughout provincial Spain. Borrowing a page from Puerto Rico's successful Operation Bootstrap, Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó offers a five-year tax holiday, duty-free equipment imports, easy credit facilities and attractive plant sites to private industries willing to set up shop in these areas which are starving for capital...
...Laureano López Rodó, 45, Planning Minister and development boss. So soft-spoken that he appears almost self-effacing, López Rodó is known as Franco's eminence grise - partly because everything about him, including his hair, suit, socks, tie and personality, seems grey. The appearance is deceiving. Son of a Catalan industrialist, he spent much of the civil war as an under ground Nationalist agent (code number: 711) in Republican Barcelona, went on to become Spain's youngest law professor, at 25, and an international authority on public administration. He is an avid...