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Last month, the talk was of peace. Arnaldo Otegi, leader of Batasuna, the banned political party linked to the Basque terrorist group ETA, told a crowd of 15,000 at a velodrome in San Sebastián in the Basque Country: "[We] stand with an olive branch in our hand." Otegi, who has never condemned ETA's violence, was cheered as he declared it was time to "pluck the conflict out of the streets and bring it to the negotiating table." But this month, the news was of terror. ETA claimed responsibility for five small bombs that went...
Before the parties sit down at the table, ETA wants to show it's coming from a position of strength. The I.R.A. planted bombs while the governments negotiated...
...call early elections. He said he no longer had confidence in the four-month-old administration of Social Democrat Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes, who assumed power in July when former PM José Manuel Barroso left to head the European Commission. The poll is expected in February. ETA Strikes Again SPAIN Authorities attributed five coordinated bomb blasts at petrol stations in Madrid, which injured two policemen, to Basque terrorist group ETA. The attacks suggest that the group remains active despite high-profile arrests and seizures of arms caches this fall. Earlier, former PM José María Aznar...
...Jacques Barrot, the new Commissioner for Transport, was found guilty in 2000 of "abuse of confidence" in connection with a party funding scandal. Barrot was pardoned by French President Jacques Chirac and his conviction was expunged. Another Roundup SPAIN Police arrested 19 suspected members of the Basque terrorist group ETA in raids in the north of the country. ETA sent a message to a Basque radio station threatening further violence against the armed forces, police and civilians working for them...
Later that year, angry Pi Eta alumni—including then-Massachusetts State Treasurer Joseph D. Malone ’78—stepped in, closing the club down but maintaining ownership of the building until 1996, when Sigma Chi became a co-owner...