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SPANIARDS, and Basques, reacted with joy yesterday to the declaration by the separatist group Eta of a permanent truce after 30 years of bloodshed.

THE BASQUE separatist guerrilla group Eta last night announced an "indefinite and total" truce to take effect today. The ceasefire, which was without conditions according to local news reports, will bring to an end 30 years of violent struggle for an independent state in which more than 800 people have died.

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A BITTER row has flared between Spain's conservative government and its regional Basque and Catalan allies since the autonomous Basque parliament approved a law last week permitting the formation of a national Basque football team.

A GUNMAN shot dead a conservative councillor from the northern Spanish town of Pamplona yesterday morning in an attack attributed to Basque separatists. Tomas Caballero, 63, was about to get into his car near his home when two men approached him and one fired two bullets to his head. The victim died shortly afterwards in hospital.

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Gunmen shot dead a conservative councillor and his wife in the street of the southern Spanish city of Seville early yesterday - the latest victims of a sustained terror campaign by Eta Basque separatists.

A conservative councillor in the Basque region in Spain died in a car-bomb explosion yesterday morning in what seems to have been the first attack this year by the separatist organisation Eta.

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Basque separatists from Eta are being blamed for the fatal shooting of a conservative town councillor. Elizabeth Nash in Madrid says the killing has dealt a crushing blow to tentative hopes of bringing an end to Eta's violent campaign.