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Advise and Consent. Among the best of American political movies. Preminger's film is far more exciting than Allen Drury's book. Drury, now a rightist so outre that he must dredge the outer reaches of the solar system for solutions to America's political problems, was at his best in his first novel, probably the best Washington novel of all time. The plot concerns the attempt of a dying President to put a supporter of his foreign policy into office as Secretary of State, and the moral issues that confront Senators when it turns out this otherwise wise...
...leftist Moslem forces, spearheaded by a group called the Independent Nasserites, have launched an offensive to win a clear victory. Moving out of their base area in southwest Beirut, the Nasserites intend to cut through the city up to the sea, thereby flanking some Phalangist positions and driving other rightist forces into the eastern part of the city...
MANUEL FRAGA IRIBARNE, 53, Ambassador to Britain, a major architect of Spain's tourist boom in the 1960s and head of a recently formed center-rightist political movement...
...nation that had spawned anarchy and by bringing Spanish society into the modern industrial age (see following story). Yet, like most dictators, he did not know when to quit. Most of his countrymen thus accept his demise as long overdue. Only among the faithful-the Civil War veterans, the rightist youth, the shopkeepers who long ago rallied to the Falange-is there a genuine outpouring of emotion for the man who has been the only leader that 70% of Spain's 35 million people ever knew...
...movement by the new government toward a liberalization of the Spanish political system would almost certainly enrage much of the rightist Establishment that has been reaping most of the political benefits of Franco's long reign. As the only party through which the factions backing the regime have been allowed to function, the Movimiento Nacional has dominated nearly every organized activity in the country, from farmers' associations to sports groups. The Movimiento's secretary, currently José Solis Ruiz, even has an automatic seat in the Cabinet. He is expected to emerge as a key critic...