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Meanwhile, the Cabinet met in a marathon nine-hour session, grappling with both the Sahara crisis (see story page 41) and the imminent succession. At the meeting Premier Carlos Arias Navarro continued the search for a consensus that he had begun earlier that week, when he had huddled with leaders of Spain's Establishment-the Movimiento National (the sole party allowed), the military and Franco's family. His goal: to gain enough backing to allow him to tell the enfeebled dictator it was time to step aside. Only the family members and some of Franco's closest...
Undoubtedly Spain will change with Franco's removal from office, but the trend toward reform will not be dramatic. The real holders of power, such as Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, will probably make conciliatory reforms such as granting labor unions autonomy and making strikes legal, but Arias and others will continue to attempt to ban some political parties, particularly those left of center. And Juan Carlos, characterized by his friends, according to Israel Shenker of the New York Times, as "a simple melancholy character with little character and less color, lacking in wit and drive," brings no hope for democracy...
Spanish Premier Carlos Arias Navarro huddled with his Cabinet three times last week. After Friday's session, the government announced a shake-up of the army command, naming a tough new head of the Guardia Civil and new commanders for four military regions, including Madrid. The next day, the government released eleven Basques being held for terrorist acts. Four Basques remain in jail, awaiting sentences for cop-killing; under a law enacted last August, a mandatory death sentence faces anyone convicted of killing a policeman...
Madrid swiftly reciprocated for Europe's repudiation of Spain. Premier Carlos Arias Navarro denounced the international pressure on Spain to stop the executions as "an intolerable aggression against Spanish sovereignty." Arias bitterly wondered aloud why there had been "no pious voice" raised for the widows and orphans of the nearly two dozen Spanish policemen killed by terrorists since January...
Empty Promise. The renewed cycle of terrorism and repression has dashed whatever remained of the hopes generated by Prime Minister Carlo Arias Navarro's 1974 promise to begin inching Spain toward political liberalization. Although Arias is credited with serious intentions of introducing reforms that would have permitted the growth of embryonic political parties, he was apparently overruled by Franco hardliners, alarmed by the leftward turn of events in Portugal. The promised "freedom of political association" never materialized. Almost inevitably, muted anti-Franco opposition turned to violence. Separatist movements in the four northern Basque provinces and in Catalonia gained momentum...