World Notes Terrorism

This year alone, the separatist Basque terrorist organization ETA has claimed responsibility for attacks that have killed 25 people, including ten Civil Guardsmen who died in a car bombing two weeks ago in Madrid. Last week ETA, the Spanish acronym for "Basque Homeland and Liberty," sent its latest message of brazen defiance: half a dozen antitank rocket grenades, fired from a parked car, hit the Defense Ministry in the Spanish capital, injuring nine people. On Saturday, two Guardsmen were killed in suspected ETA attacks near the northern city of San Sebastian.

The same day a bomb exploded outside the Paris headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The predawn blast was apparently the work of the left-wing group Action Directe, which has taken responsibility for attacks in France recently.