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...anniversary celebrations last week, will be crowned King, probably before the end of the year. Vice President Luis Carrero Blanco, 68, will inherit political power for a transitional period. But the man who will likely shape post-Franco Spain will be either Planning Minister Laureano LÓpez RodÓ, 50, or Foreign Minister Gregorio LÓpez Bravo...
...most outrageous killing occurred early this year. Adolfo Mijangos López, 43, a Sorbonne-educated law professor and leader of a five-man opposition bloc in congress, had told a friend not long before: "I know they're after me, but I have one little insurance policy -my wheelchair. They might hesitate before shooting a man in a wheelchair." In mid-January, Mijangos, who was paralyzed from the waist down, was shot in the back 27 times as he was leaving his office building-in his wheelchair. His law students tore to shreds a floral wreath sent...
...police torture and by the fact that two of the defendants are priests. Spain's complacent and pro-Franco bishops united in a plea for "maximum clemency." Even more distressing to the regime were leaked reports that high Spanish officials, among them Foreign Minister Gregorio López Bravo, were grumbling privately about the trial. When 300 prominent artists and intellectuals began a 48-hour sit-in at the Abbey of Montserrat near Barcelona, the center of Spain's Catalan autonomy movement, officials demanded that Abbot Cassia Mauro just throw them all out on grounds that the protest...
Antonio Como (José Luis López Vásquez) is a once powerful industrialist reduced by an automobile accident to a virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before...
Spain. Fulbright said that he had no basic quarrel with the contents of the five-year agreement signed last week by Secretary of State William Rogers and Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Gregorio López Bravo; in fact, he added, he would probably vote for it if it were submitted to the Senate as a treaty to be ratified. But that had not been done, and that is what irked Fulbright...