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===1970–1979=== [[File:Luis Carrero Blanco.jpg|Luis Carrero Blanco|thumb|right|165px]] * January 17, 1972: ETA kidnaps Lorenzo Zabala Suinaga, the ethnic Basque director of a factory where striking workers were recently fired. ETA demands that the factory make concessions to its workers. These conditions are largely met on January 22, the strikers return to work, and Zabala is found unharmed in a rural area on the night of January 24.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=67-68}} * August 29, 1972: ETA activists kill [[Galdakao]] policeman Eloy Garcia in a shootout.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=69}}<ref>[http://especiales.abc.es/2006/eta/atentados/atentados_ano_1972.html ABC's ETA: Repaso a 40 años de terrorismo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108195336/http://especiales.abc.es/2006/eta/atentados/atentados_ano_1972.html |date=2011-01-08 }} Accessed 10/4/10.</ref> * January 16, 1973: An ETA commando kidnaps [[Navarra]]n industrialist Felipe Huarte from his home. ETA demands 50 million pesetas and concessions to striking workers at a factory owned by Huarte. With payment of the ransom and resolution of the labor dispute, Huarte is released on January 26.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=72-73}}<ref>Preston, P. ''The Triumph of Democracy in Spain''. 1986. p 32.</ref> *January 31, 1973: ETA activists assault a [[magazine (artillery)|powder magazine]] near [[Hernani, Spain|Hernani]] (Gipuzkoa) and take 3,000 kilograms of [[explosive material|explosives]], later hiding them in the same "safe house" near San Sebastián where Felipe Huarte had been kept.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=73}} * December 20, 1973: [[Prime Minister of Spain|Prime Minister]] Admiral [[Luis Carrero Blanco]] is killed along with his driver and a bodyguard when ETA [[Operación Ogro|detonates explosives under his passing vehicle]] on a Madrid street as Carrero Blanco returns from [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]]. The tunnel in which the explosives were placed had been prepared over nearly two years{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=76-77}} * September 13, 1974: The [[Cafetería Rolando bombing]]. Located near the ''Dirección General de Seguridad'' (Directorate-General of Security) and another police building, the explosion inside the cafe kills and wounds an unclear number of patrons (reported as nine and fifty-six, respectively, by [[The New York Times]]). ETA officially denies responsibility, but several leftists are arrested and charged with the crime later claim the organization provided the explosives and expertise for the bombing.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=79}} * December 18, 1974: An ETA squad unsuccessfully attempts to steal 25 million pesetas from a factory near [[Urduliz]], wounding two members of the Guardia Civil while escaping.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=82}} * December 28, 1974: ETA activists rob the [[Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria|Banco de Bilbao]] in [[Vitoria-Gasteiz|Vitoria]], taking six million pesetas.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=82}} * March 30, 1975: A police inspector named José Diaz Linares is killed in San Sebastián by ETA.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=83}} * April 22, 1975: A policeman named Morán is killed by ETA in [[Algorta]].{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=83}} * May 14, 1975: ETA kills a Guardia Civil lieutenant in [[Guernica (town)|Guernica]].{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=84}} * October 5, 1975: Three agents of the Guardia Civil are killed when an ETA bomb destroys their vehicle while on patrol in the mountains of Gipuzkoa.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=86}}<ref>[Guardia Civil page for Esteban Maldonado Llorente {{cite web|url=http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id%3D82 |title=Acciones Terroristas |access-date=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115718/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=82 |archive-date=2011-09-27 }}] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref><ref>[Guardia Civil page for Jesus Pascual Martin Lazaro {{cite web|url=http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id%3D124 |title=Acciones Terroristas |access-date=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115800/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=124 |archive-date=2011-09-27 }}] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref><ref>[Guardia Civil page for Juan Jose Moreno Chamorro {{cite web|url=http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id%3D180 |title=Acciones Terroristas |access-date=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115843/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=180 |archive-date=2011-09-27 }}] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref> * November 24, 1975: In the organization's first attack since the death of Franco on November 20, ETA assassinates Antonio Echeverría, the mayor of [[Oyarzun]] (Gipuzkoa) and alleged police informer.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=90}} * January 15, 1976: ETA activists kidnap José Luis Arrasate, son of a Basque industrialist, from his home in [[Berriz]]. The family is unable to pay the ransom, and amid condemnation from various Basque groups, Arrasate is released unharmed on February 15.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=91}} * February 1976: Victor Legoburu, mayor of Galdakao and alleged police informer, is killed by ETA.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=90}} * March 18, 1976: ETA kidnaps and kills Angel Berazadi, a Basque industrialist.<ref>"Kidnapping of Basque Renews Warfare of Extremists in Spain", by Henry Giniger, ''The New York Times'', March 20, 1976, p.2</ref> * April 1976: ETA claims responsibility for the killings of two Spanish policemen in Southern France. Later in the month, the group electrocutes ''guardia civil'' Miguel Gordo Garcia when he attempts to remove a [[Booby trap|booby-trapped]] [[Ikurriña|Basque flag]] in [[Barakaldo]].{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=90}}<ref>[Guardia Civil incident/memorial page for Miguel Gordo Garcia {{cite web|url=http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id%3D232 |title=Acciones Terroristas |access-date=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115602/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=232 |archive-date=2011-09-27 }}] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref> * October 4, 1976: [[Assassination of Juan María de Araluce Villar]]. In a daytime machine gun attack on the streets of San Sebastián, ETA activists kill Juan María De Araluce Villar, president of the Provincial Assembly of Gipuzkoa and member of the Council of the Realm, along with his driver and three police guards. Ten bystanders are wounded.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=93-94}}<ref>[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1976/10/05/001.html ABC Madrid cover story 10/5/1976] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref> * October 8, 1977: In Guernica, ETA gunmen [[Assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea|kill Augusto Guillermo Unceta Barrenechea]], president of the Provincial Assembly of Biscay, along with two ''guardia civil'' who had been escorting him.{{sfn|Clark|1984|p=102}}<ref>[Guardia Civil page for Angel Antonio Rivera Navarron {{cite web|url=http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id%3D14 |title=Acciones Terroristas |access-date=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927115926/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=14 |archive-date=2011-09-27 }}] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref><ref>[Guardia Civil page for Antonio Hernandez-Fernandez Segura {{cite web|url=http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id%3D32 |title=Acciones Terroristas |access-date=2010-09-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927120015/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=32 |archive-date=2011-09-27 }}] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref><ref>[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1977/10/09/001.html ABC Madrid front page 10/9/1976] Accessed 9/22/10.</ref> * May 9, 1978: In Pamplona, a bomb concealed in a streetlight explodes as a ''Guardia Civil'' vehicle passes, killing agent Manuel Lopez Gonzalez.<ref>[http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=215 Guardia Civil page for Manuel Lopez Gonzalez] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927120103/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=215 |date=2011-09-27 }} Accessed 9/28/10.</ref><ref>[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1978/05/10/009.html ABC Madrid 5/10/1978 page 9] Accessed 9/28/10.</ref> * September 25, 1978: ETA gunmen kill two ''guardia civiles'' in San Sebastián, then hijack a taxi while making their escape.<ref>[http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=166 Guardia Civil page for Jose Zafra Regil] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927120145/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=166 |date=2011-09-27 }} Accessed 10/4/10.</ref><ref>[http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=199 Guardia Civil page for Lorenzo Soto Soto] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927120229/http://www.guardiacivil.org/terrorismo/acciones/detalle.jsp?id=199 |date=2011-09-27 }} Accessed 10/4/10.</ref><ref>[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1978/09/26/001.html ABC Madrid front page 9/26/78] Accessed 10/4/10.</ref> * October 22, 1978: ETA gunmen ambush four civil guards, killing three of them and wounding the fourth in an [[October 1978 Getxo attack|attack in Getxo]].<ref>[http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1978/10/24/pagina-13/33744126/pdf.html Otro criminal atentado en Bilbao], La Vanguardia, 24 October 1978, p13</ref> * July 28, 1979: [[July 1979 Madrid bombings|three bombs]] in [[Barajas Airport]] and [[Madrid Atocha railway station|Atocha]] and [[Madrid Chamartín railway station|Chamartín]] train stations, kill 7 people and injured a further 100. The attacks came a day after attacks in [[Bilbao]] and [[San Sebastián|San Sebastian]] had killed four people.<ref>[http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1979/07/31/pagina-4/33434429/pdf.html La Vanguardia, 31 July 1979, p3-4], accessed 29 April 2012</ref>
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