Word: galicians
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...remain faithful to the principles that guide the National Movement" (the country's sole legal political party). There was speculation that as one of his first official acts, King Juan Carlos may posthumously ennoble his predecessor. It would be an ironic touch of regal glory for the Galician paymaster's son, who had held more power in his lifetime than the new King might ever know...
...institutions, in short, are more suited to the world of 1892, the year Franco was born in the Galician seaport of El Ferrol (now El Ferrol del Caudillo), the son of a navy paymaster. Francisco hoped to become a naval officer but he could not; one version is that he was too short (5 ft. 3 in.), another is that when he came of age the Navy was too poor and too battered by the '98 war with the U.S. to accept new officer-candidates. Franco, in any case, entered the army instead. He forsook wine, women, friendships...
...other leaders forced out: Television Chief Jiři Pelikán, Radio Chief Zdenek Hejzlar and Dr. František Kriegel, popular liberal member of the Presidium. Brezhnev tossed Kriegel out of the Soviet-Czechoslovak meeting in Moscow last month by icily ordering Dubček: "Get this Galician Jew out of here...
...unnamed hero is swept up in a mass arrest of Algerian demonstrators, taken to an overnight concentration camp in the Sports Palace, and released to go back first to his mistress, a free-swinging Galician tart, and then with his hook and mallet to the old job in the slaughterhouse. Through all this there clings to him "the typical boiled cabbage smell of all immigrants." It is his fault. He clings throughout to a cabbage, the "authentic proof of my innocence and my simplicity"-and of his official guilt. To the police, it makes him an Arab. He loses...
...more delighted at all the bustle than Francisco Franco, the stubby (5 ft. 3 in.) Galician general who is now in his 30th year as "Caudillo (literally: commander or headman) of Spain by the Grace of God." And quite probably, no one is more surprised. For until six years ago, Spain was isolated from most of the world, brooding, stewing in its evaporating juice. Foreign investment was unwanted and restricted, and Franco was as openly anticapitalist as he was antiCommunist. Spanish industries, creaking and featherbedded, stumbled along behind trade barriers that kept most foreign products out entirely and imposed rigid...