This was over 30 years ago, plenty of people were shocked and outraged.
Hell, when Neneh Cherry performed on Top of the Pops while pregnant they had a whole slew of complaints, including ones that said women should not be seen in public "during their confinement" (which was a Victorian thing)
As a British immigrant who lives in Catalunya, so much this ... I live and work in Castilian, pay taxes, etc, but have precisely 1 British friend here because all the others have been unbearable.
Luis Carrero Blanco's assassination, despite much pearl clutching, helped to weaken Franco's regime. So, when he died two years later, there wasn't a solid power structure in place to continue fascism in Spain.
That's why I said snipe, namely to shoot from a long distance from a concealed location.
Also, while it wouldn't fix any structural problems it would break the cult of personality, and mean that whoever wants to follow in his footsteps in he immediate future would be aware that if they go too far there might be repercussions (unlike at the moment, where people are being killed and nobody is taking physical action to stop it).
On paper this has got all the ingredients to be a favourite of mine ... but it just didn't click for me at all :-(