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| | ETA: Spain's Erratic Basque Separatists |
 | | During the course of their activity, ETA were big employers of random bombings, car bombings and kidnappings, in addition to undertaking a series of bold attacks, characterized by a string of political assassinations. |
 | | ETA continued a chain of politically directed assassinations over the rest of the decade and on into the new century, targeting opposition party leaders and officials, lawyers, journalists, and members of the Guardia Civil, Spain’s state police force. |
 | | ETA experienced a growing chorus of electoral support for the nationalist cause over the 80s, despite their increasingly reckless and violent tactics, with nationalist parties including Herri Batasuna garnering close to 68 percent of the vote in June 1987, a doubling from the 35 percent earned in the first democratic elections in June 1977. |
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