Word: eta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...College, desperate for more housing, allows the Pi Eta Speaker's Club to become the 14th house. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield is appointed master and immediately asks Professor Susan R. Suleiman to become house librarian. He says she'll be able to "improve the students' minds" and is a "fine little baker...
...Residents of Pi Eta House, which will be renamed "Southeast House" in honor of the famous direction, are moved to the Charles Hotel pending completion of renovations. Students get complimentary breakfast croissants but aren't happy. Says one: "If I wanted to study abroad, I'd have moved to the Quad...
...Vitoria, a Basque community in northern Spain, celebrate the fiestas of the Virgen Blanca, the city's patron saint. Last week the annual merrymaking was disrupted when about 1,000 youths who had been drinking at fiesta street bars began chanting slogans in support of the Basque terrorist organization ETA. The demonstration soon developed into a riot in which 48 people, including ten police, were injured and tens of thousands of dollars in damage was done to public buildings...
...rioters were protesting the French government's crackdown on suspected ETA terrorists who have fled to France. Basque separatists have traditionally used the southwest of France as a haven and headquarters for planning future attacks, but in recent weeks France has handed over five young Basques to Spain. In a pre-riot visit to Madrid, French Security Minister Robert Pandraud said the deportations would continue...
This year alone, the separatist Basque terrorist organization ETA has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed 25 people, including ten Civil Guardsmen who died in a car bombing two weeks ago in Madrid. Last week ETA, the Spanish acronym for "Basque Homeland and Liberty," sent its latest message of brazen defiance: half a dozen antitank rocket grenades, fired from a parked car, hit the Defense Ministry in the Spanish capital, injuring nine people. On Saturday, two Guardsmen were killed in suspected ETA attacks near the northern city of San Sebastian...