Basque Rebel Threat Targets 2nd Politician

Basque separatist guerrillas have threatened to kill a second low-ranking politician from Spain’s ruling party days after assassinating a young town councilor and sparking massive protests, an official said. The new threat, against another Basque town councilor, came in defiance of government vows to crush the rebel group ETA, which kidnapped 29-year-old Miguel Angel Blanco last week and shot him twice in the head Saturday. “It’s true that a new threat against a member of the PP [Popular Party] has appeared,” Angel Acebes, general coordinator of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar’s party, told reporters. Spanish newspapers said Aznar, who survived an ETA attack in 1995, remains a chief target of the group.