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...police sealed and began to search the offices of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg and Bonn. The magazine's editor-and-chief Rudolf Augstein and several Der Spiegel executives were arrested and jailed. Simultaneously, Spanish police arrested Conrad Ahlers, one of the magazine's assistant editors, in Madrid. These arrests aroused immediate public outcry against the Gestapo-like violation of freedom of the press...
...baptismal ceremony in Madrid's Pardo Palace was over, and now came time to take the family photographs. Little María de Aránzazu Luisa la Santísima Trinidad y de Todos los Santos, born a fortnight ago, was trundled into the boudoir of her mother, Maria del Carmen Franco y Polo, Marquesa de Villaverde, 36, the only child of Spain's Francisco Franco. All was serene while the photographers snapped away. Then the Marquesa's next youngest child, María del Mar. handed her mother a tiny box. As the last...
Powell declared in Madrid that what he was really studying was the Common Market. Then Powell, who has one of the worse attendance records on Capitol Hill, cut his trip short and flew to Puerto Rico, where he was greeted with a kiss and a hug by his wife - who happens to be on his House office payroll at $12,974 as a secretary...
...that were not enough, the protest bombs of Franco's bitter political enemies were exploding anew in the streets of Spanish cities. There were blasts outside newspaper offices in Madrid and Barcelona; the increasing boldness of the regime's opposition was amply illustrated when another explosion shattered the windows of Franco's summer palace on the outskirts of San Sebastian. To the relief of the police. El Caudillo was off on a fishing trip at the time...
...Franco government was showing continuing signs of a more liberal policy (TIME, July 20). For one thing, a new Minister of Information. Manuel Fraga Iribarne, was making things a bit easier for Spanish newspaper editors. Over the years, they have been accustomed to tight censorship of each edition; Madrid and Barcelona papers still are required to send proofs to the censor for approval, but they report that now there is less tinkering with the stories. Fraga claims he no longer sends out consignas, orders requiring the printing of specific articles. Liberalism is also being pushed in the economic field...