DATE=7/16/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=SPAIN/ETA (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-264469
BYLINE=GIL CARBAJAL
DATELINE=MADRID
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA has
been blamed for the assassination of a councilman in
the southern city of Malaga. Gil Carbajal reports
from Madrid that the killing is part of an intensive
terrorist campaign in which E-T-A has struck three
times in 10-days, in different parts of the country.
TEXT: Spanish Interior Minister Jaime Oreja has
confirmed that the Basque pro-independence group ETA
was behind the Saturday-night assassination of Malaga
city councilman Jose Maria Carpena.
The interior minister also said ETA used a 14-month
truce it called off last December to reconstruct its
infrastructure, enabling it to attack in three parts
of Spain over a period of 10-days.
// OPT // The Malaga city councilman, accompanied by
his wife and 17-year-old daughter, was on his way to a
dinner party in which he was to give the keynote
speech. As they left the entrance of their apartment
building making their way to a waiting official car,
// END opt // a young man shot the Malaga councilman
six-times and disappeared into the crowded streets of
the city celebrating its annual fiesta.
/// OPT /// Mr. Martin Carpena was the sixth victim
since E-T-A called off its truce. The previous most
recent victim, killed on June 4, was also a Popular
Party Councilman of the Basque town of Durango. //
END OPT //
Since December, E-T-A has carried out a dozen attacks
aimed at security forces, politicians, journalists,
and Basque businessmen.
// OPT // The last attack was a car bomb which
exploded in the commercial center of Madrid early
Wednesday. A previous car bomb went off in a
residential area inhabited by Basque Businessmen and
their families near Bilbao. // END OPT //
ETA has continually harassed the Basque business
community to pay what it calls a - revolutionary tax.
The lastest attacks have increased pressure on the
pro-indepence, but conservative Basque Nationalist
Party, which has been ruling the Basque Country's
regional government with the parliamentary support of
ETA's political wing, Euskal Herritarok.
On Friday, Basque businessmen, major suporters of the
Basque Nationalist Party, called for an end to that
political collaboration. And after Saturday's
killing, the Popular Party and the main opposition
Socialist Party again demanded that the Basque
Nationalist Party break with ETA and call early
regional elections. (SIGNED)
NEB/GC/ALW/RAE
16-Jul-2000 12:28 PM EDT (16-Jul-2000 1628 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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