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Died. Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz, 68, Spanish Foreign Minister from 1957 until his ouster during a Cabinet shake-up in 1969; following a heart attack; in Madrid. Tall and powerfully built, Castiella fought with Franco's Blue Division shock troops alongside Nazi forces on the Russian front during World War II. As head of the Foreign Ministry, Castiella earned a reputation as a stubborn negotiator; he repeatedly drove tough bargains with the U.S. over military-base leases and doggedly-though unsuccessfully-strove to retrieve Gibraltar from British rule. Toward the end of his career, Castiella came under increasing...
...year after Francisco Franco's death, the rubber-stamp parliament in Madrid moved Spain along the road to democracy in a curious way-by voting itself out of existence. After three days of sometimes emotional debate, the Cortes overwhelmingly approved (425 to 59, with 13 abstentions) the government's political reform bill (TIME, Nov. 1), thereby promising Spain a Western-style democracy for the first time in 40 years. Under the provisions of the law, a bicameral legislature (a 350-member elected congress of deputies and a 207-member senate) will replace the present Cortes, in which less...
Meanwhile, the government is limiting the right of die-hard Franquistas to keep the memory of el Caudillo alive. It reluctantly granted a request by the archconservative National Veterans Federation to commemorate the first anniversary of Franco's death with a rally in Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. The demonstration consisted of 30 minutes of prayers for Franco, the reading of his last message to Spain and the singing of songs from the Spanish civil...
...March 2, 1976, five armed men with machine guns kidnapped, interrogated and tortured Jose Antonio Martinez Soler, a Spanish journalist from Madrid and now a Nieman Fellow...
Both the rightist and leftist Spanish press rallied to their defense, holding demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona to protest the act of terrorism...