Word: pardo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with headlines long since set: FRANCO HA MUERTO. Radio stations dropped regular programming to play hour after hour of solemn requiem music. Later that day, Franco's body, dressed in a captain-general's uniform with a red sash, was borne from La Paz Hospital to El Pardo, his official residence outside Madrid, for a private funeral Mass. Spain's new ruler, Juan Carlos de BorbÓn y BorbÓn, was on hand accompanied by his attractive wife Sofia. Juan Carlos had assumed temporary powers for the second time as chief of state during Franco...
...Spain's frail, 82-year-old Caudillo suffered a heart attack that would probably have killed most men. Yet neither that nor a chain reaction of complications that followed broke the dictator's grip on life. Franco's physicians and the Spaniards who gathered outside the Pardo Palace to pray or wait had no doubts about the outcome of the autocrat's last battle. But all agreed that, in high Spanish style, he was waging a heroic fight...
...seemingly futile struggle to keep el Caudillo alive was waged inside the second-floor bedroom of the turreted El Pardo Palace outside Madrid, where a 24-man team of doctors attended him round the clock. The medical bulletins that streamed from the sickroom told of "cardiac insufficiency," "gastric hemorrhaging," "intestinal paralysis," "blood clotting" and at least five heart attacks over a 13-day period. Yet the 82-year-old Franco, who a week earlier was believed to be only hours away from death, hung on-just as he had hung on to absolute power for nearly four decades...
Downstairs at El Pardo, a steady procession of Cabinet ministers, generals, leaders of the Movimiento National (the sole political party allowed), Roman Catholic churchmen and a few Latin American ambassadors arrived to inquire about Franco's health. Among the callers were exiled King Leka of Albania and Nicolas Franco, 37, the dictator's nephew. Young Franco later told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott that he was hardly surprised by his uncle's durability. His own father, Franco's 85-year-old brother, suffered a similar illness four years ago and had been kept alive by drugs...
...post-Franco epoch. His first official function, in fact, clearly symbolized that power had been transferred to him; he presided over Friday's Cabinet meeting, which was held around the dining-room table of his Zarzuela Palace rather than in the dining room of Franco's El Pardo...