1970-1979 List of ETA attacks

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january 17, 1972: eta kidnaps lorenzo zabala suinaga, ethnic basque director of factory striking workers fired. eta demands factory make concessions workers. these conditions largely met on january 22, strikers return work, , zabala found unharmed in rural area on night of january 24.
august 29, 1972: eta activists kill galdakao policeman eloy garcia in shootout.
january 16, 1973: eta commando kidnaps navarran industrialist felipe huarte home. eta demands 50 million pesetas , concessions striking workers @ factory owned huarte. payment of ransom , resolution of labor dispute, huarte released on january 26.
january 31, 1973: eta activists assault powder magazine near hernani (gipuzkoa) , take 3,000 kilograms of explosives, later hiding them in same safe house near san sebastián felipe huarte had been kept.
december 20, 1973: prime minister admiral luis carrero blanco killed along driver , bodyguard when eta detonates explosives under passing vehicle on madrid street carrero blanco returns mass. tunnel in explosives placed had been prepared on 2 weeks.
september 13, 1974: cafetería rolando bombing. located near dirección general de seguridad (directorate-general of security) , police building, explosion inside cafe kills , wounds unclear number of patrons (reported 9 , fifty-six, respectively, new york times). eta officially denies responsibility, several leftists arrested , charged crime later claim organization provided explosives , expertise bombing.
december 18, 1974: eta squad unsuccessfully attempts steal 25 million pesetas factory near urduliz, wounding 2 members of guardia civil while escaping.
december 28, 1974: eta activists rob banco de bilbao in vitoria, taking 6 million pesetas.
march 30, 1975: police inspector named josé diaz linares killed in san sebastián eta.
april 22, 1975: policeman named morán killed eta in algorta.
may 14, 1975: eta kills guardia civil lieutenant in guernica.
october 5, 1975: 3 agents of guardia civil killed when eta bomb destroys vehicle while on patrol in mountains of gipuzkoa.
november 24, 1975: in organization s first attack since death of franco on november 20, eta assassinates antonio echeverría, mayor of oyarzun (gipuzkoa) , alleged police informer.
january 15, 1976: eta activists kidnap josé luis arrasate, son of basque industrialist, home in berriz. family unable pay ransom, , amid condemnation various basque groups, arrasate released unharmed on february 15.
february 1976: victor legoburu, mayor of galdakao , alleged police informer, killed eta.
april 1976: eta claims responsibility killings of 2 spanish policemen in southern france. later in month, group electrocutes guardia civil miguel gordo garcia when attempts remove booby-trapped basque flag in barakaldo. in same month, eta kidnaps , kills angel berazadi, basque industrialist.
october 4, 1976: assassination of juan maría de araluce villar. in daytime machine gun attack on streets of san sebastián, eta activists kill juan maría de araluce villar, president of provincial assembly of gipuzkoa , member of council of realm, along driver , 3 police guards. ten bystanders wounded.
october 8, 1977: in guernica, eta gunmen kill augusto guillermo unceta barrenechea, president of provincial assembly of vizcaya, along 2 guardia civil had been escorting him.
may 9, 1978: in pamplona, bomb concealed in streetlight explodes guardia civil vehicle passes, killing agent manuel lopez gonzalez.
september 25, 1978: eta gunmen kill 2 guardia civiles in san sebastián, hijack taxi while making escape.
october 22, 1978: eta gunmen ambush 4 civil guards, killing 3 of them , wounding fourth in attack in getxo.
july 28, 1979: 3 bombs in barajas airport , atocha , chamartín train stations, kill 7 people , injured further 100. attacks came day after attacks in bilbao , san sebastian had killed 4 people.




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