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DATE=6/25/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-234526
TITLE=BASQUE POLITICIAN KILLED (L ONLY)
BYLINE=GIL CARBAJAL
DATELINE=MADRID
CONTENT=
VOICED AT: 
INTRO:  IN SPAIN, ANOTHER TOWN COUNCILMAN HAS BEEN KILLED IN AN 
ATTACK IN BASQUE COUNTRY.  GIL CARBAJAL REPORTS FROM MADRID THAT 
THE VICTIM HAD REPLACED A COUNCILMAN KILLED LATE LAST YEAR BY 
E-T-A, A BASQUE SEPARATIST GROUP.
TEXT:  TOWN COUNCILMAN MANUEL ZAMARRENO OF SPAIN'S RULING POPULAR
PARTY WAS KILLED THIS MORNING WHEN A BOMB PLACED ON A MOTORBIKE 
WAS SET OFF BY REMOTE CONTROL AS HE WALKED BY WITH HIS POLICE 
ESCORT.  THEY WERE AROUND 200 METERS FROM THE DOOR OF THE 
COUNCILMAN'S HOUSE, IN THE NORTHERN BASQUE CITY OF RENTERIA, WHEN
THE EXPLOSION OCCURRED. THE BASQUE REGIONAL POLICEMAN WAS WOUNDED
BY SHRAPNEL AND RUSHED TO THE HOSPITAL. HIS LIFE IS REPORTEDLY 
NOT IN DANGER.  (OPT) THE MORE THAN 160 POPULAR PARTY COUNCILMEN 
AND OFFICIALS IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED POLICE 
ESCORTS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF E-T-A'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST THEM. (END 
OPT)
MR. ZAMARRENO ONLY RECENTLY TOOK UP THE SEAT LEFT VACANT AFTER 
HIS FRIEND JOSE LUIS LASO WAS KILLED BY E-T-A GUNMEN IN DECEMBER.
HE TOOK UP THE SEAT RELUCTANTLY, SAYING HE DID SO IN HOMAGE TO 
THE MEMORY OF HIS SLAIN FRIEND.  MR. ZAMARRENO, 42-YEARS OLD, WAS
THE FATHER OF FOUR CHILDREN.  HE IS THE SEVENTH COUNCILMAN KILLED
IN TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE PAST THREE YEARS.
IN APRIL, THE OTHER POPULAR PARTY COUNCILMAN IN RENTERIA, 
CONCEPCION GIRONZA, RESIGNED HER SEAT UNDER THE PRESSURE OF 
CONTINUOUS DEATH THREATS.  ONLY LAST MONTH MR. ZAMARRENO'S CAR 
WAS SET ON FIRE.
THIS LATEST TERRORIST ATTACK COMES TWO DAYS AFTER THE E-T-A 
ANNOUNCED THE END OF A TRUCE IT SAYS IT HAD BEEN OBSERVING IN 
ATTACKS AGAINST THE BASQUE REGIONAL POLICE, KNOWN AS THE 
ERTZIANTZAS.
IN A NEWS CONFERENCE THURSDAY, SPANISH INTERIOR MINISTER JAIME 
MAYOR OREJA REITERATED THE GOVERNMENT'S REFUSAL TO CONSIDER 
NEGOTIATING WITH E-T-A OR ITS POLITICAL WING, HERRI BATASUNA, 
UNTIL THEY DECLARED AN END TO TERRORIST ATTACKS. 
NEARLY A YEAR AGO SIX MILLION SPANIARDS TOOK TO THE STREETS TO 
PROTEST THE EXECUTION OF A POPULAR PARTY COUNCILMAN FROM ERMUA. 
(SIGNED)
NEB/GC/KL
25-Jun-98 11:14 AM EDT (1514 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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