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College (Bryan) 846-4275 WORLD Page 14 THE BATTALION Wednesday, Febnm Bomb kills 2 in Spain Bilbao A ...fljifijtie Vergara y ^ ^ region ) ^ SPAIN EEEI • Aluv , I Car I *$&&& Pami i bomb i XflSsgBfc kills V /„> politician V/'j l^jgrono VITORIA, Spain (AP) — A car bomb Tuesday killed a politician who opposes Basque separatism and his bodyguard near the seat of the Basque regional government in the town of Vi toria in northern Spain. The explosion occurred shortly after 4:30 p.m. on a university campus about 200 yards <k ' 1 . from the headquarters of v \ the president of the Basque government, a police spokesman said. Firefight ers rushed to the scene. There was no claim of responsibility but Interior Minister Jaime Mayor Oreja blamed the anned Basque separatist group ETA for the attack. People in Spain and the Basque region “must un derstand the macabre les- son ETA is trying to teach | us,"' Mayor Oreja told re- & porters. He broke off a vis- it to the eastern town of Benidorm to fly to Vitoria. The blast shook the regional govern ment headquarters as officials inside held a press conference. Vitoria is capi tal ofAlava province and of the Basque region. The explosion killed Fernando Bue- sa, leader of the Alava provincial chap- I ter of the Basque Socialist Party, and a policeman serving as his bodyguard, po lice said. Earlier reports had said one of the fatalities was a woman. Spanish television showed footage of a bloodied body lying on a grassy area of' the campus. mmeemffim ^TA announced in De- cember it was ending a 14- KiPr V month-old cease-fire and an Sebastian / I , . , , warned it would resume at tacks. It has killed an estimat ed 800 people in a 32-year- old struggle for indepen dence for the region, which straddles the border of France and Spain. Buesa’s party opposes Basque separatism, favoring the current system of broad Basque autonomy granted by the Spanish constitution. The regional govern ment is controlled by the moderate Basque National ist Party, which says it sup- Puerto Ricans prote bombing of Vieques i Barcelonan ports Basque independence but oppos es ETA’s violent methods. Buesa was walking near his home with his bodyguard when the bomb detonated. He was among some 10,000 people who took part in an anti-ETA demon stration Saturday in the nearby Basque city of San Sebastian. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — In one of the biggest demonstrations here in years, 85,000 Puerto Ricans heeded the calls of religious leaders and marched in silence to protest the planned resumption of U.S. Navy bombing on the island of Vieques. “We Want Peace!” banners they carried demanded. They also waved portraits of Jesus and the U.S. territory’s single-star red, white and blue flag as they filled a mile- long stretch of San Juan’s Las Americ as Expressway. Hundreds of police cor doned off the highway and watched without interfering. The “Peace for Vieques” march was called by religious leaders to repu diate an agreement between Gov. Pedro Rossello and President Clinton to re sume limited training with dummy bombs on Vieques, the Navy’s prize At lantic licet bombing range. Police Chief Pedro Toledo estimated the crowd at 85,000. “We are showing the consensus in Puerto Rico's heart in favor of peace and justice,” said San Juan Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves. Church leaders’ increasing® ment in anti-Navy protests has® many pro-statehood politicians. They fear the protests conic efforts to make Puerto Rico-it cut of $11 billion in federal ft® nually — the 51st U.S. state. “It is anti-American, anti-Nai docs not contribute to the seriousi that Gov. Rossello has donetoci the Navy’s exit,” said Houses Edison Misla Aldarondo. 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