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...will share power with a premier who will serve as chief of government as distinguished from chief of state. The premier will be picked by Franco-or, after Franco, by Spain's next chief of state-from a list of three candidates nominated by the Council of the Realm. He will serve 'a five-year term and be the operating head of government, subject to various checks and balances...
Whisper in the Cortes. When Franco dies or decides to step down, he will be succeeded as chief of state by a king nominated by his Cabinet and by the advisory Council of the Realm, and ratified by a three-fifths vote of the Cortes. If the Cortes does not approve the candidate, it will then pick a temporary regent to reign until a king can finally be chosen. The king, in turn, will inaugurate a royal succession in which the first male heir will inherit the throne. If normal custom is followed, the first king will be Don Juan...
...constitution is expected to create a Prime Minister, enlarge the functions of the Council of the Realm (heretofore purely decorative), grant wider representation to the Cortes and -most important-limit the power of the head of state in the transition period to a return to constitutional monarchy. Said one Hispanologist: "The old laws were made to give Franco the means to govern. This one gives him the way to phase...
...point was well taken. In the always-sensitive realm of congressional relations, the department has not been notably successful of late. Rusk has not won acceptance on Capitol Hill of the Administration's policies on foreign aid or increased trade with Russia and Eastern Europe. The Administration plans to push hard next year not only for a trade bill but also for a consular treaty with the Soviet Union. The Government will also face renewed heckling from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over Viet Nam. In this kind of encounter, Katzenbach has already won his spurs as a diplomat...
...last race at England's Newbury track, the lady picked Blazing Sky at 7-2 to win the six-furlong Theale Maiden Stakes. Sure enough, Blazing Sky came breezing across to take it by four lengths. "Ah!" cried the Duchess of Norfolk, 50, wife of the realm's premier duke. "How I like Newbury!" Indeed, Newbury had been very kind to her. On a wager of 70?, her ladyship collected $7,804.34, the tote jackpot, by backing the winners in all six races...