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Despite these sanguine bulletins, Franco's condition was deteriorating. Thursday night, the eleven physicians attending him announced that he had suffered a relapse and "early signs of cardiac insufficiency had appeared." As this news spread, bars and restaurants in Madrid began closing early; a few groups of youths roamed the capital's streets mournfully chanting, "Franco. Franco. Franco...
...probably a Communist front. If the new regime fails to bring the Socialists into the government, the Communists may also try to woo them into an opposition national-front movement. "If Juan Carlos does not offer change and change quickly," warned a party official last week in Madrid, "he will be consigning himself to oblivion." From Paris, Carrillo was blunter, vowing "a wave of terror that will lead to a new civil war" if the hard-line rightists retain control of the government...
Last Friday, Juan Carlos agreed to pose for TIME Photographer Eddie Adams at Zarzuela Palace, his official residence north of Madrid. The lines under his eyes reflected the strain of last week's uncertainties, but the atmosphere at Zarzuela was relaxed and, as palaces go, even homey. There was little sense of urgent state business at hand. Observed TIME's Madrid bureau chief, Gavin Scott: "Juan Carlos gave the impression that he had been cast in a role and he was ready to fill it out of a sense of patriotism. But there was nothing to suggest...
...rule; in 1948, though, he agreed to have his son educated in Spain under Franco's guidance. Hostility toward the Bourbon heir from both rightists and left-wing antimonarchists was so intense that the ten-year-old Prince became a virtual prisoner in Las Jarillas, a heavily guarded Madrid estate where he began private high school studies. There Juan Carlos received his first indoctrination into the quasi-Fascist philosophy of Franco's Movimiento National...
After studying for two years at the Infantry Academy in Zaragoza, the Prince was sent for a year each to the Naval School at Marin and the Air Academy at San Javier. Armed with commissions in all three services, Juan Carlos began his civilian education at the University of Madrid in 1960. Lest he be tempted by what his father called "the tra-la-la of Madrid," however, he was cloistered once again, this time 30 miles from the capital, with a retinue of chaperons that included two dukes, three colonels and a personal chaplain...