Calvo-Sotelo 's gloomy message
Tthe Prime Minister-designate, a tall and dour man, had little cheer to offer his fellow politicians. Spain's young democracy was entering a perilous new era, he warned. Spaniards were disenchanted and pessimistic, the economic situation was "bitter and hard." In those gloomy terms, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 54, last week went before the Cortes to seek approval for a new minority government.His 75-minute speech contained no bold departures, no ringing calls to greatness. Instead, it was a gingerly tiptoe around the thorny issuesdivorce, Basque nationalism, party infightingthat had discouraged his predecessor, Adolfo Suárez, 48, and finally led him...
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