Word: monarchists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best chance and with most at stake in the outcome is a 6-ft. 3-in. blueblood who has not lived in Spain for 31 years. He is Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 49, Count of Barcelona and Pretender to the Spanish throne, which he and his monarchist supporters are certain will be restored when Franco goes. Until that happens, he can only wait restlessly in self-imposed exile at Estoril, Portugal's glittering resort, or take the handsome yacht Saltillo for endless cruises in the Mediterranean-an embodiment of his country's impatience, and a symbol...
...situation as a football match, he comments cheerily to visitors. The whole matter, he adds, has been "exaggerated." But he speaks more freely in private. When aides keep assuring him that all important factions in Spain are for him. he will mutter: "If everybody's so monarchist, then why the hell am I in Estoril?" New Middle Class. Whoever runs Spain next will inherit a country slowly, painfully outgrowing the isolation and poverty of centuries. In old Castile, land of santos y cantos (saints and songs), village steeples are inhabited by storks, the near-sacred birds of Spain, standing...
...anti-Franco underground, arresting dozens. Then, at the Madrid airport, Franco's agents grabbed two prominent Spaniards as they returned from a widely publicized conference of opposition leaders in Munich. Economist Dr. Jesus Prados Arrarte is expected to do a three-month stretch in the isolated Canary Islands; Monarchist Joaquin de Satrustegui will doubtless receive similar punishment. For those still out of jail, Franco's new residence decree would be equally effective...
...period. A dozen more were jailed for signing the opposition's manifesto. Though candidates could be nominated only by petitions signed by 20 local electors, many opponents of the regime found that their backers had mysteriously been disqualified. None were allowed access to electoral rolls; election officials told monarchist candidates that their nomination papers had been filed "one minute too late." Only 59 opposition candidates managed to win government approval. So sure were Salazar's men of re-election that one National Assemblyman toured the U.S. throughout the campaign. After all, his opponent was in jail...
...Figuring that her five world records would make her all but unbeatable in swim-conscious Australia, the party invited Dawn to carry its banner but got a polite brush-off. "I understand one of the party's aims is to do away with the royal family." said loyal Monarchist Dawn. "I'm definitely against that. I'm an admirer of the royal family, and after all, I'm a British Empire and Commonwealth Games medalist...