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Spanish newspapers led with a new Basque terrorist murder, El País reporting this side by side with a report from Dublin about the IRA agreeing that its political wing, Sinn Fein, might participate in an Ulster parliamentary assembly.
In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA called off its 14-month cease-fire last Friday, prompting public outrage.
People aren't bombing Spain "because the Basque problem hasn't been resolved," he said.
On primordial identities: I don't believe in single identities, but there are root identities such as being a Basque, a Catalan, a Kurd, or an Occitan, especially when there is a need to assert such a root identity against a larger, sometimes more smothering polity or culture.
My suspicions aroused, I found that a number of entries had neither a nautical origin nor, perceivably, any nautical connection: jingo , offered as probably a Basque word, acquires a nautical connection because Basques were among the earliest organised whalers in Europe, and as harpooners their expressions would have carried some weight with other seafarers.
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