Word: paulino
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...flesh hangs on an aged frame. His mouth sags. His palsied right hand sometimes shakes so badly that he must grip it in his left. His voice, always shrill, is strained and thin. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde-known more familiarly as Francisco Franco and el Caudillo (the Leader)-turns 80 this week, a pinnacle granted few world leaders. The man who has ruled Spain since 1939 planned to celebrate quietly in Madrid's elegant Pardo Palace, where he lives with his wife Carmen Polo de Franco, 72, amid Goya tapestries, Velásquez paintings...
...brusque official decrees that cut Paulino down were shock enough for the readers of Trujillo's house-organ daily, El Caribe, which always before had only lavish praise (Paulino had been the paper's publisher). Going on from there in editorials El Caribe gave some details on just how the "truculent, ambitious and aggressive ex-functionary," the "bad collaborator of the Chief," had come to grief...
While the boss was in Spain on a recent state visit, it appeared, Paulino had undertaken to further his ambitions by "sowing discord" to "divide and conquer" the armed forces. Item: Paulino humiliated a Trujillo favorite, Rear Admiral Lajaro Burgos, "calling him by the name of Napoleon, and not by his own true name." Explained El Caribe: "Assuming that Communism works by fomenting hate, stimulating the instincts of revenge and of conflict between individuals ... it has to be said that the policies to which Señor Anselmo Paulino Alvarez has been so boldly and poisonously dedicating himself are policies...
...Admiral Lajaro Burgos foiled Paulino by flying off to Spain and tattling to the dictator. On Trujillo's return, El Caribe concluded lyrically, "the sword of the Biblical angel flashed over the stupid head [of Paulino], casting him out of paradise and into reproach...
Trujillo has chastised Paulino before; in 1950 when the Organization of American States accused Paulino of plotting to assassinate Paul Magloire (now President of Haiti) on behalf of Trujillo, the boss was forced to send him to the doghouse for a while. But careful students of Trujillo's methods think that charging Paulino with Communist policies means he is out for good...