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- <text id=89TT3173>
- <title>
- Dec. 04, 1989: World Notes:Spain
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 04, 1989 Women Face The '90s
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 61
- World Notes
- SPAIN
- Bullets for Basques
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Two men calmly walked into the Restaurant Basque in Madrid
- last week, strode toward a table of legislators slated to take
- seats at the parliament's opening the next morning and opened
- fire. One diner was killed, another badly wounded. As the gunmen
- left the restaurant, they told a security guard nearby that all
- was well, then disappeared down a dark street.
- </p>
- <p> Both victims, who were moderate members of the Basque
- separatist group Herri Batasuna, had hoped that ending their
- party's ten-year boycott of the parliament would spur
- negotiations with Madrid to redress Basque grievances. As news
- of the murders spread, thousands of Basques went into the
- streets of Bilbao, San Sebastian and other cities, smashing
- windows and burning buses and cars.
- </p>
- <p> The style of the attack, the weapons used and other details
- suggested that ultrarightists, perhaps with ties to the army,
- were involved. The far right opposes the Socialist government's
- attempt to improve relations with the Basques.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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