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What accounts for such extreme behavior? Traditional rivalries, for one thing, have long mirrored societal rifts. Glasgow Celtic fans are Catholic, and Rangers fans are Protestant. In Rome it was communist vs. fascist; in Madrid nationalist vs. Catalan or Basque. Yet as those old markers fade, the violence seems to continue, fueled by little more than alcohol and malice...
...bank has gained some 150,000 new customers, and in the first three quarters of 2004, profits rose 12%, to $532 million. At Santander, which just took over British bank Abbey National, Botín is giving Spain's macho banking world a run for its money. --By Samuel Loewenberg/ Madrid...
...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 off at Madrid gas stations on Dec. 3, and seven more devices that exploded almost simultaneously in towns strung north to south across Spain on Dec. 6. Is ETA preparing to lay down its arms or gearing up for another round of attacks? ETA has been largely dormant outside the Basque Country since March...
...Otegi is. What he advocated in November was broad political talks among all groupings in the Basque Country, while ETA negotiates with the Spanish and French states on disarmament, prisoners and victims of violence. He hasn't mentioned olive branches since this month's bombings. The Socialist government in Madrid has rejected Otegi's notion that negotiations can begin without a renunciation of violence from ETA. Yet Basques who condemn ETA don't believe these bombings were meant to scupper talks. Rather, they were a way of keeping the radical base loyal while inching toward negotiations. "I'm convinced that...
...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 testified to the commission investigating the March 11 bombings in the capital...