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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>
</body></article>
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