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...country that had not gone to the polls to elect its leaders for 41 years, last week's Spanish elections were a celebration - an affirmation that the long night of Franco's tyranny was indeed over. With joy and assurance they voted in Premier Adolfo Suárez, rejecting the extremes of both right and left. In our cover story this week, we examine the nation's emotional yet orderly transition from dictatorship to democracy. Madrid Correspondent Karsten Prager was struck by Spain's ability to emerge so smoothly from a political vacuum. "There...
Like leaders of other governments along the tour, Venezuela's President Carlos Andrés Pérez said he was "pleasantly surprised" by the "extraordinary woman." Brazilian officials gave their poised and well-briefed visitor high marks for her meetings with President Ernesto Geisel. Said one diplomat: "This lady knows what she's talking about. She asks the right questions and has the right answers. There's no fooling around." Speaking her mind, the First Lady re-emphasized to Geisel her husband's concern about nuclear proliferation. The Brazilians resent Carter's opposition...
...Democratic Center Union (U.C.D.), a center-right coalition of 15 groups, including Social Democrats, Christian Democrats and independents, is headed by Premier Adolfo Suárez, 44, who took over the faltering alliance last month and installed a number of his own loyalists as candidates. Some liberals quit in protest, and a number of former officials in the Franco regime came aboard. Because of this-and because of Suárez's own background as head of Franco's National Movement Party -critics charge that the coalition is "renovated Franquismo." The charge is not altogether fair however...
Should the Democratic Center win, Suárez says its top priorities will be 1) a new constitution approved by all the parties, 2) economic and tax reforms,3) measures for regional autonomy and4) administrative reforms, such as decentralization and a streamlined bureaucracy. The U.C.D. favors the present mixed economy (with a sizable public sector), extension of social security benefits to all, and free trade unions...
...meeting was all the more remarkable because the Communist Party is still officially illegal in Spain, although the government of Premier Adolfo Suárez, in its efforts to broaden political participation, now generally looks the other way when it comes to the Communists' political activities. The government even permitted the party chiefs to hold a two-hour press conference. It also provided heavy security for the visitors. Carrillo himself, undoubtedly mindful of the right-wing assassination of five Communist labor lawyers six weeks ago, escorted his guests from the airport to their hotel in a bulletproof 1948 Cadillac...