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WORLD, Page 61World NotesSPAINBullets for Basques
Two men calmly walked into the Restaurant Basque in Madrid last
week, strode toward a table of legislators slated to take seats at
the parliament's opening the next morning and opened fire. One
diner was killed, another badly wounded. As the gunmen left the
restaurant, they told a security guard nearby that all was well,
then disappeared down a dark street.
Both victims, who were moderate members of the Basque
separatist group Herri Batasuna, had hoped that ending their
party's ten-year boycott of the parliament would spur negotiations
with Madrid to redress Basque grievances. As news of the murders
spread, thousands of Basques went into the streets of Bilbao, San
Sebastian and other cities, smashing windows and burning buses and
cars.
The style of the attack, the weapons used and other details
suggested that ultrarightists, perhaps with ties to the army, were
involved. The far right opposes the Socialist government's attempt
to improve relations with the Basques.