Word: garaicoechea
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively small size of the ETA organization is misleading. It can probably call on no more than 300 men for terrorist activity at any time; another 300 provide intelligence, cover and shelter. But as Carlos Garaicoechea, president of the moderate Basque Nationalist Party says, "You cannot minimize the strength of ETA." Its resources include an estimated $3.5 million stolen from banks and factory payroll offices last year, as well as uncalculated amounts of revolutionary taxes" exacted from frightened Basque businessmen...
...height of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's repression of the region, sympathy for ETA ran high among Spain's 2 5 million Basques. But continuing terrorism has eroded that feeling. At present, says Nationalist Party President Garaicoechea: "ETA is not serving the interests of the Basques; instead it is helping the right." Garaicoechea's party wants taxes, social security, education, communications and law-and-order to be the responsibilities of the Basque people within something akin to a federal system. Under the new constitution, Basques are likely to get more of that than they have had in decades...
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