ETA ends truce after one week

MADRID - The Basque separatist organisation ETA ended a week long truce yesterday, dashing the best hopes for years that contacts…

MADRID - The Basque separatist organisation ETA ended a week long truce yesterday, dashing the best hopes for years that contacts could be opened with the Spanish government, Elizabeth Nash reports.

However, the Interior Minister, Mr Jaime Mayor Oreja, said the government would continue to transfer ETA prisoners to jails nearer their families in the Basque country, a key ETA demand.

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