Word: generalissimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spain, where opposition parties are banned by the regime, Communists have quietly begun to plan for the day when Generalissimo Francisco Franco dies and Western Europe's oldest dictatorship is replaced by more representative government. The Communists in Spain are probably the most disciplined and dedicated force on the political left. They have operated secretly inside the country and more openly outside...
...medical bulletin came as many Spaniards were enjoying a long weekend in celebration of the 38th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War that brought Generalissimo Francisco Franco to power. "The illness from which the head of state has been suffering has today suffered a regression because of gastric complications," said the report from the medical center in Madrid, where Franco has been bedridden for the past two weeks. A few hours later, Franco, 81, formally handed over his powers as chief of state and head of the armed forces to Prince Juan Carlos de Borb...
...whispering shyly as she used to do, thus confusing her early audiences. On the stump to support Perón's "social pact" economic program, she lashed out at black marketeers and hoarders. Last month, with a hairdresser and assistant hairdresser in tow, she made state visits to Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Pope...
...firmly defended his 1971 charge that Park had cheated him of election victory and was seeking to impose Taiwan's "generalissimo system" on South Korea. Said Kim: "I made the statement in the hope that the government would drop the idea. But now all these things have become reality." As he left the court after the second session, Kim received another round of applause from onlookers...
...Vatican and the Roman Catholic government of Spain confronted one another last week in the country's most ominous church-state clash in more than 40 years. The regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco was seeking to expel the Bishop of Bilbao, Antonio Añoveros Ataun, 64, for statements that sharply opposed government policy. Madrid even hinted that it might break the 1953 concordat that protects Catholicism's legal position as Spain's state religion. In response, churchmen warned that any official-presumably including Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and even the pious Caudillo himself-who moved against...