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...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 the bishop would be automatically excommunicated...
...other peoples of the Spanish state," Añoveros wrote, "have the right to conserve their own identity and to cultivate and develop their spiritual heritage within a sociopolitical system that recognizes their liberty to do so." In the context of Spanish politics, those were daring words indeed. Madrid vividly remembers that Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's closest colleague and Arias' predecessor as Premier, was killed by Basque bomber-terrorists as he emerged from daily Mass. But Añoveros went on to regret that "sometimes people, or to say it better, their ruling classes, can succumb...
...Lucia was quoted as saying "I believe Miguel will be even more irresistible than Luis," referring to her husband, Luis Miguel Dominguín, one of Spain's greatest bullfighters. However, it turned out that the most scandalized person was Lucia herself. Charging hoax, she denied from her Madrid home that she and Miguel had ever even considered appearing in Truth and said the photo was from a family album. Then she announced plans to sue Paris-Match for "malicious untruths...
Franco's new regime effectively finishes Opus Dei as a power in Spanish politics, at least for the immediate future. It dashes the hopes of Opus Dei and Spain's newly emerging industrialists that their country will join the Common Market. The Market has demanded that Madrid meet certain "democratic conditions" before it can become a member-conditions that Franco and Arias firmly repudiated...
Despite the political tensions, the country was curiously quiet in the aftermath of Carrero Blanco's murder. Predictions of widespread violence were proved wrong-at least for the moment. "The reaction has shown the maturity of the Spanish people," trumpeted Madrid's Nuevo Diario...