Word: carrero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrorists' plan: to build popular resentment of far-off Madrid and to increase separatist yearnings among the historically disaffected Basques. In the past 13 years the ETA has killed more than 350 victims, carefully choosing as its targets police, army and political figures. One was Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the man Franco had hand-picked as his successor. In 1973 Carrero Blanco and his automobile were blown four stories high in Madrid by an exploding land mine, a spectacular event that led to a popular folk song in Basque country with a refrain that begins, "Whoops, he goes...