Word: madrid
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...Alfonso and his wife Carmencita were designated Duke and Duchess of Cádiz. Franco's reasoning in restoring the monarchy was to provide Spaniards with a familiar anchor after he is gone. Cynics refer to the King-designate as "Juan Carlos the Brief." "Everywhere else," a Madrid university student complained, echoing an attitude common among young Spaniards, "they are shooting at kings or at least asking serious questions about what they do. Here we plan to restore one; it doesn't make sense...
...always shrill, is strained and thin. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde-known more familiarly as Francisco Franco and el Caudillo (the Leader)-turns 80 this week, a pinnacle granted few world leaders. The man who has ruled Spain since 1939 planned to celebrate quietly in Madrid's elegant Pardo Palace, where he lives with his wife Carmen Polo de Franco, 72, amid Goya tapestries, Velásquez paintings and liveried servants...
...Franco has become a standing enemy. "I will continue as long as God grants me life and health," he has promised. When the newspaper Madrid last year suggested that he emulate France's Charles de Gaulle and retire, its presses were silenced by government decree for six months and the paper eventually went out of business. Nonetheless Franco has already prepared for his eventual death, and reserved a tomb in the "Valley of the Fallen," the grandiose memorial mausoleum carved by Republican prisoners of war in and around a granite mountain 30 miles from Madrid to hold Civil...
...serious split has developed between the state and Spain's second most powerful entity, the Roman Catholic Church. Increasingly, liberal priests and bishops, spurred by Vatican II, want to separate church and state into what Madrid's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancón last week described as a condition of "independence and cordiality...
...providing $85 million in economic aid and $141 million in military aid in exchange for U.S. air and naval bases in Spain. It was the high point of Franco's long career. "The West needs us in the fight against Communism," he boasted to a Falange meeting in Madrid...