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WORLD, Page 40World NotesSPAINBagged in Bayonne
His face obscured by a helmet, a dark figure climbed off his
motorcycle and strode toward a house in a village outside Bayonne
in southwest France. Before he reached the door, gunfire erupted,
and within minutes French authorities captured the notorious leader
of the Basque hard-liners, Jose Antonio Urrutikoetxea (alias: Josu
Ternera), 38. The arrest last week of the ETA (Basque Homeland and
Liberty) terrorist was hailed as a major breakthrough in a
three-year Franco-Spanish offensive against Basque extremists
fighting for independence in Spain.
Josu Ternera is thought to have been responsible for the
assassination of the Spanish Prime Minister in 1973. Police believe
the arrests will seriously curtail the terrorist activities of ETA.