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When Washington did finally issue a statement on the executions, it was carefully phrased to refer to the acts by the terrorists as well as the death sentences, expressing regret at "the cycle of violence that led to this tragic out come." U.S. officials pointedly and persuasively note that those executed were shot not for political or ideological "crimes" but because they had cold bloodedly killed policemen. To be sure, the hasty trial they received in Spain's military courts scarcely qualifies as justice according to Anglo-American standards. Yet, the terrorist organizations to which they belonged have openly...
...sign refers to Angel Otaegui, 33, a Basque terrorist who was executed by a firing squad a week ago for his part in the killing of a Spanish policeman...
Otaegui, who worked as a mechanic in Azpeitia, had been a clandestine member of the E.T.A. for five years. This terrorist organization has not only spearheaded resistance to what Basques call "Hispanicization," but also won a deserved international reputation as the most violent and daring Spanish group opposing Francisco Franco's regime. Six E.T.A. terrorists were sentenced to death in 1970 for kidnaping a West German consul in San Sebastian, but were reprieved at the last moment...
...most of Europe saw it, the death sentences suggested a return to the days when the Franco regime virtually ruled by gun and garrote. Until last Friday, when el Caudillo commuted the death sentence of six other terrorists, one of them a pregnant woman, there had been eleven convicts awaiting execution-the most since 1940. All eleven were sentenced under a new anti-terrorist law enacted in July that makes the death penalty automatic for anyone convicted of killing a policeman...
...morning after Sara Jane Moore's matronly visage first made the nation's front pages and television screens, House Minority Leader John Rhodes decided he had had enough. "What possible good purpose can come from this intense coverage of terrorist activity?" he demanded on the floor of the House. "Individuals of questionable mental stability will surely begin to conclude that they too can obtain national publicity and an enlarged forum for their views on redwood trees and other irrelevancies simply by attempting to gun down the President...