Word: madrid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holding himself stiffly in his sashed and braided blue uniform, Generalissimo Francisco Franco stepped out onto the balcony of the Royal Palace overlooking Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. Instantly, the human sea of 150,000 faithful down below him thrust right arms forward in salute. Then the crowd launched into Face to the Sun, the anthem of the right-wing Falangist shopkeepers and tradesmen who sided with Franco when he began his bloody struggle for power 39 years ago and have been unswerving in their support of him ever since. Franco spoke only three minutes in his thin, barely...
...Franco felt the need to call for such a massive show of support. His purpose last week was not so much to intimidate the regime's enemies within Spain as to respond defiantly to the paroxysm of anti-Franco rage that swept Western Europe following Madrid's executions of five terrorists convicted of murdering policemen (TIME, Oct. 6). In this he succeeded. Flanked by his wife Carmen and his heir-designate Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Western Europe's last remaining dictator was plainly moved by the genuine emotional outpouring...
...midweek every Western European government save Ireland had recalled its ambassador from Madrid or kept him at home for "consultations"-gestures of protest against the executions. In Brussels, the Common Market's governing Commission dealt Spain what one official termed "the strongest political rebuff" ever given by the EEC; it recommended suspension of negotiations that had been under way since mid-1973 for a new preferential trade agreement between Spain and the Market. The impact of the EEC's move could be painful, as the nine Common Market members buy nearly half of all Spanish exports...
...shortly after 4 a.m. The scene was the office of Alonso's defense lawyer, a modest hut in the Madrid suburb of Vallecas. "There is no hope," sighed the lawyer, his eyes red with fatigue. He turned to a telephone and dialed the number of an undertaker in the old Castille village of Hoyo de Manzanares, 18 miles north of Madrid. "Can you take care of a death?" the lawyer asked. "Where is the body?" the undertaker asked. "Haven't you been listening to the radio and television?" the lawyer insisted. "We don't handle these cases...
...windows of Carabanchel prison on Madrid's southwest outskirts meanwhile blazed with light. Families of the three condemned men were being allowed a last visit. The mother of one screamed hysterically as she departed. "They are going to shoot him! The police have hurt me!" She was quickly bundled into a car and driven away weeping...