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...France. The organization's wildly unrealistic goal of achieving independence is losing support among a once sympathetic populace. Yet, paradoxically, even as its powers seem to wane, the group remains an ominous threat. The Basque terrorists who form the Euzkadi ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Liberty), or ETA, still have the potential to cause the overthrow of Spain's fragile, 31-month-old democracy...
Since it turned to violence in 1968, the ETA has used assassination first to fight the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, then to provoke democratic Spanish authorities into retaliating bloodily and repressing liberties in three of Spain's Basque provinces (see map). The terrorists' plan: to build popular resentment of far-off Madrid and to increase separatist yearnings among the historically disaffected Basques. In the past 13 years the ETA has killed more than 350 victims, carefully choosing as its targets police, army and political figures. One was Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, the man Franco had hand-picked...
...Spain turned toward democracy following Franco's death in 1975, the terrorists calculated that their acts would goad the military into a right-wing coup, thereby buttressing ETA'S claim that peaceful reform was impossible. The number of terrorist killings rose dramatically. And, indeed, on Feb. 23, rebellious members of the Spanish Guardia Civil took over the country's parliament and held it for 18 hours. The insurgents were backed by high-ranking army officers and had the support of shadowy right-wing financiers. The main demand of the rebels: more freedom to combat Basque terrorism...
Hamlin, however, is not above a little mischief. Last year, a few of his buddies at the Pi Eta club got drunk and headed over to Quincy House where demonstrators were protesting the showing of Deep Throat in the House dining hall. "We made up a couple of banners and marched into the building chanting. 'Don't miss the boat, see Deep Throat.' We thought the First Amendment issue had precedence," the Government concentrator explains...
...government said that the bombing of Valenzuela's staff car was carried out by members of ETA, the Basque separatist organization responsible for most of the political terrorism in Spain. ETA confirmed it had carried out the attack. The other two incidents were suspected to mark the re-emergence of the October 1 Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO), a mysterious organization described by the authorities as ultraleftist, that has surfaced sporadically in recent years. In the gun battle that followed González de Suso's assassination, police wounded and captured Emilio Gomez Gomez, 28, allegedly a member...