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...safe" telephones. Carrillo has repeatedly voiced his opposition to Juan Carlos. "The Prince is, in effect, the son of Franco," the Secretary recently told TIME Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers. "All Franco's structures will have to disappear, including Juan Carlos. If the people decide they want a monarch, then he will be Don Juan"-Juan Carlos' father, who has been living in exile in Portugal...
...symbol of fascism, it is not clear whether totalitarianism will continue under his hand-picked successor, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. Franco chose Juan Carlos to be his successor in 1969 to ensure "political continuity and stability." And it's good news that the future king--Spain's first monarch since 1931--has indicated that he's interested in bringing Spain into the European political and economical mainstream, if only because most European countries will not accept Spain until it changes its political system. But Juan Carlos has no real power base for this move and Spain's political climate...
...Chief Executive, Commander in Chief of the armed forces and leader of his party. He is also the symbol of the nation, the living repository of its power and integrity. Few other democracies invest such temporal and quasispiritual authority in one life. Most split them between a President or monarch and his Prime Minister...
...into World War II? Hearing of pending war crimes trials, he once went to General MacArthur to plead that he alone should bear the blame for every act of war. More realistically, Hirohito reminds questioners these days that even in his prewar era of official divinity, he was a monarch hemmed in by a constitution, not to mention the military leaders who came to power in Japan after 1931. Even so, writes Author Frank Gibney in The Fragile Super Power (TIME, April 21), "He served as a symbol of militarism for two generations. The imperial presence at all those military...
...Davis' 13-year tenure as chairman of Britain's Rank Organization (annual sales: $600 million) has long seemed a corporate version of the reign of Henry VIII. A 68-year-old, 202-lb. former accountant and veteran of five marriages, Davis ran the company like a Renaissance monarch: he insisted on deciding personally minute details like the design of an invitation card to a company party, and became known as "the executioner" for his summary firings of scores of lesser executives. The latest and most notable casualty occurred in September, when Sir John got rid of another much...