Judge, Worker Slain in Separate Attacks

A Supreme Court judge and an air base worker were slain in attacks that the government blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA. Supreme Court Justice Rafael Martinez Emperador was gunned down outside his apartment building in an upscale Madrid neighborhood by one of two gunmen who approached him. Police said the 9-millimeter pistol used in the attack and the way it was carried out were typical of ETA. Hours earlier a powerful car bomb exploded in the southern city of Granada, killing a civilian worker in a passing air force van and wounding seven. ETA, an acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom, has killed almost 800 people since 1968, when it began fighting for independence for northern Spain’s Basque regions.