Word: nonterrorist
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...reforms have undercut a great deal of ETA's backing, particularly from the middle class, which is weary of the terrorist tactics. There is a grudging recognition, even among the most anti-Castilian of nonterrorist Basques, that conditions have improved decisively. Says Angel Amigo, a young writer and film maker who joined ETA in 1972, aided in a terrorist kidnaping, was captured, tortured and subsequently released: "There has been a change in the scale of values among the young since Franco's day. Under repression, all life turned on politics. War was heroism, but all that is over...