Word: borja
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presumably would have become the real power behind Juan Carlos after Franco's death. That plan died along with Carrero Blanco in December 1973 when Basque terrorists set off an explosive charge as the admiral drove from morning Mass at Madrid's San Francisco de Borja Church...
...precise habits, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco had followed an almost unvarying schedule long before his inauguration last June as Spain's President and Prime Minister. Every morning about 9, his Dodge Dart would park in front of Madrid's San Francisco de Borja Church, only 300 yds. from his home, and Carrero Blanco, 70, would enter the church for Mass. Approximately 45 minutes later, he would leave for his office in the Paseo de la Castellana. In the seething Spain of 1973 such predictability is not always a virtue. Carrero Blanco last week fell victim to a bomb...
Carrero Blanco's assassins constructed an elaborate scheme. Posing as sculptors, two men rented a basement room near San Francisco de Borja eight weeks ago and tunneled to a place where the President's car passed every morning. When Carrero Blanco drove by the spot after Mass, the assassins detonated a massive explosive charge, possibly an antitank mine. The explosion was powerful enough not only to kill Carrero Blanco, his chauffeur and bodyguard but to blast a 35-ft. hole in the street and blow parts of the car over the top of the five-story church...
...policy was not being well enforced. Last week soldiers on a house-to-house search of Santiago's San Borja district-a fashionable leftist stronghold -broke through locked doors and tossed thousands of books and papers out of apartment windows. Among the works consumed in impromptu street bonfires were Mao's Little Red Book, novels by Mark Twain, economic studies by John Kenneth Galbraith-and old copies of TIME...