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Strengthening U.S. ties with Spain was the next item on the Ford-Kissinger itinerary. After more meetings with European leaders (among them Giscard and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson) and a second day of NATO sessions, the President and Kissinger flew to Madrid. Ford and Franco rode through the streets of Madrid, then Ford lunched with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro and Foreign Minister Pedro Cortina Mauri. Among other things, they discussed the pending negotiations for the U.S.'s continued use of four military bases in Spain. In exchange for renewing the agreement, which expires in September, Spain wants some...
Flying in after the NATO summit in Brussels and a brief stopover in Madrid to visit Generalissimo Francisco Franco, Ford was lodged in Schloss Klessheim, an 18th century baroque chateau with a pink façade. Sadat, eager to size up Ford but unwilling to visit Washington until there is more progress toward peace with Israel, stayed at the elegant, 525-year-old Schloss Fuschl, a hunting lodge...
...ailing man of 82, it was a heroic performance. For a full 90 minutes last week, General Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain for the past 36 years, stood at attention on a gold-railed rostrum, taking the salute as 11,000 troops and "Forces of Public Order" paraded down Madrid's broad Paseo de la Castellana on the annual "Day of Victory" celebrating the final Falangist victory. Franco, unassisted, then descended from the dais, climbed into his huge, pre-World War II Rolls-Royce and, again standing, was slowly driven off to cries of "Franco! Franco! Franco...
Accompanied by Wife Betty, Ford will stop first in Brussels, where he will attend a NATO summit meeting on Thursday and Friday. Afterward, he will spend two days talking with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Salzburg. He will also make a brief side trip to Madrid. Ford's European travels will end on June 3 after a ten-hour stopover in Rome to pay courtesy calls on President Giovanni Leone, Premier Mariano Rumor and Pope Paul VI. Traveling with Ford will be Kissinger, who last week spent five days in Europe setting the stage for the presidential diplomacy. Kissinger...
...further dramatize U.S. concern about Europe's shaky southern tier, Ford will spend Saturday in Madrid discussing U.S.-European relations with Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Premier Carlos Arias Navarro. From Spain, Ford will fly to Salzburg to talk with Sadat in hopes of finding a new approach to negotiating peace in the Middle East. Sadat has ruled out a resumption of Secretary of State Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy. As a result, said a White House aide, "we have to find an alternative. The most dangerous alternative is to do nothing-and that...