The World - News from Aug. 31, 1987
A radical Basque leader said the separatist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) is willing to negotiate an end to its 19-year-old guerrilla war against the Spanish state. Jon Idigoras, leader of the pro-separatist Herri Batasuna Party, told the Spanish daily Diario 16 that he felt ETA’s demand for an independent Basque state might be mitigated by giving the Basque regional government a greater measure of self-rule and by granting an amnesty for jailed guerrillas. Idigoras welcomed last week’s official confirmation that senior government aides have traveled abroad to contact ETA leaders.
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