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Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, a liberal army officer sprang to his feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...
...They returned to the pock-marked chamber the following day and elected Calvo-Sotelo their new Prime Minister by an absolute 186-158 majority. That was 16 more votes than Calvo-Sotelo had expected to get in the earlier, rudely interrupted balloting. The Deputies also gave standing ovations to Suárez and Gutiérrez Mellado, both of whom had courageously stood up to Tejero. But the loudest applause was reserved for the King, who was praised by Calvo-Sotelo as "the channel through which democracy ran while we were held hostage...
...Sotelo, 54, last week went before the Cortes to seek approval for a new minority government.His 75-minute speech contained no bold departures, no ringing calls to greatness. Instead, it was a gingerly tiptoe around the thorny issues-divorce, Basque nationalism, party infighting-that had discouraged his predecessor, Adolfo Suárez, 48, and finally led him to resign. At week's end Calvo-Sotelo lost a first confidence vote but was expected to win on a second try, which Cortes rules allow...
...prudent but far from memorable beginning for Calvo-Sotelo. A successful engineer-businessman from one of Spain's most prominent political families -the assassination of an uncle in 1936 helped spark the Spanish Civil War-he was most recently Suárez's deputy prime minister for the economy. When Suarez suddenly stepped down last month, Calvo-Sotelo inherited the mandate-and with it a ruling party, the Union of the Democratic Center, that is divided on most major political issues. Moreover, even a united U.C.D. could muster only 165 votes in the 350-seat Cortes, eleven short...
...Prime Minister-designate also reaffirmed Spain's commitment to membership in the European Community but soft-pedaled the controversial question of joining NATO. His caution was understandable on that score. Suárez's unbridled eagerness to move Spain into NATO had not only met fierce opposition from the Communists and Socialists, it had caused grumbling within the ranks of his own divided party. Seeking to defer action on NATO membership, Calvo-Sotelo proposed further consultations on the question by parliamentary committees. He altogether omitted another highly sensitive subject: a pending divorce bill, initially approved by Su...