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...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...
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...
...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...
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...