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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...
...Mattus observes somewhat impishly, the Danish language does not even use the umlaut, but he "thought it gave more pizazz." In fact, Mattus had no connection with Denmark; his own family had emigrated from Poland. But on the tops of his ice-cream cartons he printed a map of Scandinavia, with a star marking Copenhagen and an arrow swooping toward the star. Unwary buyers of this costly marvel (which sells now for $1.65 a pint and up) could have been forgiven for assuming that they were getting Prince Hamlet's own recipe from the court at Elsinore...
...still much room for mischief, and both the Democratic and Republican national committees are trying to make sure things go their way. Armed with a $1 million budget, the Republicans are hiring teams of lawyers and computer experts to advise local G.O.P. groups on how to cut the map to the party's advantage; the Democrats, however, plan to spend only $500,000 on their redistricting campaign...
...attitude toward its neighbors. Two weeks ago, the Holocaust's survivors convened in Israel to keep the memory awake, in some cases to search for friends and relatives from whom they were torn away in places like Belsen, Auschwitz and the other stains on history's map. That was some 40 years ago, but to look at the survivors now, wandering and embracing in the open space of the memorial Yad vaShem, the Holocaust could have happened yesterday. Thus inadvertently the point is made: Israel has already witnessed the end of the world. When it attacks an incubative...
...Israel's future. At the heart of the issue are the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Tellingly, most Israelis refer to the West Bank by the biblical regional names that Begin made fashionable: Judea and Samaria. Begin, in fact, would like to add them to the permanent map of the country, as part of the state of Israel. According to its official policy, the Likud would offer "full autonomy" to the Arab population. The hyperbolic formulation gives lip service to the Camp David agreement but little else. The "autonomy" would include administrative control over police, taxation and urban administration...