Word: eta
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When a handful of students in northern Spain got together in July 1959 to form a group dedicated to winning independence for the Basque Country, they could hardly have known that they would one day become Europe's longest-enduring terrorist group. This week, ETA (the initials stand for Basque Homeland and Freedom in Euskera, the Basque language) marked the 50th anniversary of its founding with yet more bloodshed: more than 40 people were injured by a bomb in the northern city of Burgos on July 29, and two civil guards were killed by another on the holiday island...
...Students held a demonstration in response to the incident and a Crimson photographer was arrested for allegedly stepping onto Pi Eta’s property to take a photo of the event. Fox and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III even asked the club to close, but Pi Eta refused...
...catalyzing force in the divorce process was Pi Eta, a now defunct speaking club that Fox said often associated itself with final clubs. This “vestige of an early club system” published a newsletter that referred to women invited to a club party as a “bevy of slobbering bovines fresh for the slaughter.” Though Pi Eta was not itself a final club, the outrage over the publication sparked discussions about whether the final clubs could continue with their ostensibly exclusionary policies...
...ETA On the Go. FlightStats, the Web service that tracks flight status, as well as airport weather and delays, has a new air-travel app for Google Android smartphones (like the HTC G1 from T‑Mobile and the HTC Magic from Vodaphone). Download the $5.99 app - FlightStats for Android - at Android Market to see view your flight's progress on a map, or see flight status by route or by airport. Need to make last-minute changes? There are also links to airline phone numbers...
...with those parties barred from running in the last election, this is the first time in modern history that there are no pro-ETA groups in parliament. That fact, coupled with the knowledge that ETA is at what is widely considered to be its weakest point in history, may enable López to capitalize on new talk of a negotiated peace. "Sooner or later, we're going to achieve what all of us - nationalist or non-nationalist - want, which is that things calm down in the Basque Country," says Landaburu, himself a victim of ETA's terrorism. "Maybe this...