Word: eta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reputed military chief of the Basque terror group ETA, Domingo Iturbe Abasolo, alias Txomin, is suspected of masterminding dozens of killings in Spain. ETA most recently took responsibility for a bomb attack two weeks ago that killed five policemen. Iturbe, 42, has been kept out of reach of the Spanish since he fled to France in 1968. In 1982 French authorities declared him a political refugee...
...late 19th century, final clubs at Harvard were the all-male preserves of seniors only. Students would embark on their social careers in sophomore clubs like the Hasty Pudding, Pi ETA, or Institute of 1770, and then join waiting clubs as juniors. Only a few select seniors would eventually join final clubs...
Today all nine exclusive all-male clubs--as well as the Hasty Pudding, the Pi ETA, and the Signet--accept members from all classes except the freshmen class. The Harvard Lampoon selects its membership from all four classes...
...group of sophomores led by Charles Joseph Bonaparte, who would eventually become Secretary of the Navy and then attorney general under Teddy Roosevelt, decided to boycott the 100-year-old Hasty Pudding and join the much younger Pi Eta Club. Not satisfied there, they dropped out. In reaction, the Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta clubs acted to prevent Bonaparte and his friends from joining any of the junior waiting clubs. And so the Signet was born as a juniors-only club...
...when they went on an impromptu riot in February. About 80% of the Americans who planned to visit the country have now canceled their reservations, thus wiping out most of the $100 million in U.S. tourism revenues that Egypt stood to gain this year. Says Adel Zaki, manager of ETA Tours, a large Egyptian travel agency: "This year is going to be a catastrophe...