Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Firing Squad. Spain's "disagreeable tension," as one Madrid newspaper rather euphemistically described it, reached the snapping point early last week. After the West German consul in San Sebastian was freed by the Basque terrorist group that had kidnaped and held him hostage for three weeks, speculation increased that the 16 would be treated with moderation. But when, after 21 excruciating days of deliberation, a verdict was finally produced by the five-man military tribunal and approved by the local military governor, some of the sentences were even harsher than those demanded by the prosecution. One defendant was acquitted...
...Spain's three Basque provinces, terrorist leaders promised to assassinate two government officials for every Basque executed. Other Spaniards greeted the verdict with shocked silence...
...capital itself, the Communists have been responsible for a wave of terrorist bombings. In the countryside, they seized the offensive after their setback last fall at Taing Kauk (TIME. Oct. 19). A month ago, they cut Route Four, the main road between Phnom-Penh and the deepwater port of Kompong Som, and the Cambodian army has not yet been able to reopen it. The result is a serious fuel shortage in Phnom-Penh. So far there has been no such scarcity of food, although the flow of refugees has increased the capital's population from 500.000 to almost...
...focal point of the crisis was not in Madrid, but 130 miles away in Burgos. There in a military court 16 young radicals from Spain's northern Basque country are on trial on charges of assorted "separatist-terrorist-Communist activities." The 16 are members of the E.T.A. (for Euskadi at Askatusana-"Basque Land and Liberty" in Basque), a small, militant group of terrorists who profess to be fighting for local autonomy...
Last month an ersatz congressional election was held in which the pro-government party, ARENA, won 70% of the 310 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. ARENA'S victory against tame, regime-approved opposition candidates was not surprising, but neither was it convincing. A terrorist plea for the casting of blank ballots as a protest gesture, meanwhile, was totally ignored. Brazil's 30 million voters seemed determined to turn thumbs down on the terrorists, if not quite thumbs up for the generals...