Word: renteria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visibility and inexperience. The real target, they have claimed, was a tiny, 60-ft. stone-and-steel bridge over the narrow Mundaca River, a funnel for retreating Basque troops. But why incendiaries against a stone bridge? And why so massive a raid against so small a target? The Renteria Bridge, in any case, was never touched. Nor were the sacred oak and the adjoining Casa de Juntas (assembly hall) of the Basques, nor an important small-arms factory on the outskirts of town...