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...plot, as well as a number of high-ranking army officers, even though the King repudiated the plotters and almost singlehandedly prevented a takeover. Juan Carlos has denied the charge, but most political analysts agree that the leaked testimony will put additional pressure on Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo to avoid a full-dress court martial of Tejero. Such an exercise would almost certainly embarrass the throne, infuriate the army and possibly precipitate another coup...
...Calvo-Sotelo discounted the prospects of a second attempt to seize power. But right-wing demonstrators were marching through Madrid loudly chanting the name of their latest hero...
...that changed, however, less than a month after the aborted coup when ETA gunmen killed two army colonels. Suárez's successor, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, felt compelled to grant the army and navy limited, border-patrolling duty in the Basque region-a first step, critics charge, toward a new cycle of violence and repression whose main victim could be democratic government in Spain...
...letter embarrassed the government. The Defense Ministry called the statement "spine-chilling and depressing," and Calvo-Sotelo even summoned the papal nuncio, Archbishop Antonio Innocenti, to enlist his aid in silencing the bishops. Innocenti declined. Although the letter accurately reflected widespread fears in Spain, it contradicted the image of calm, steady helmsmanship that Calvo-Sotelo has sought to project since the attempted coup. But the army's brooding presence is undeniable-and, in at least temporarily stifling political debate, it may have lengthened Calvo-Sotelo's lease on office...
Socialist Chief Felipe Gonzalez, backed by Communist Party Boss Santiago Carrillo, renewed an earlier offer to help form a grand-coalition government "to save democracy" until the next elections, slated for 1983. Gonzalez pointed out that between the Socialists and Calvo-Sotelo's ruling Union of the Democratic Center Party, such a government could claim the support of 80% of the electorate. "The time has come now," said Gonzalez, "and the warning light has been lit." But, once again, Calvo-Sotelo rejected the offer, evidently out of fear that such a coalition would be too left of center...