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Ten days later, the PP leader in the Basque country, Gregorio Ordonez, was shot dead in a San Sebastian restaurant. Indeed, when a former secret security chief was last week accused by Basque police of handing Eta a proposed plan for negotiation, his alleged action was interpreted as an act of criminal folly.None the less, Spain's secret security services, capable of logging even the private telephone conversations of the king, have been incapable of preventing a stream of terrorist attacks against carefully chosen political targets.At the weekend, Herri Batasuna, Eta's political wing, elected a new hardline leadership in accordance with what the party called "the passing from the stage of resistance to a stage of offensive".Yesterday's attack brings to 13 the number of people killed by terrorists this year. Only the strength of the armour- plating on Mr Aznar's car saved him. In August, police foiled an Eta plot to kill King Juan Carlos near his summer palace on the island of Majorca.Unlike the long rapprochement that eventually brought peace between the British government and the IRA, there has never been any official suggestion in Spain that Eta's armed struggle, the last home-grown guerrilla war in Europe, could be ended by negotiation. The latest attack, like that in June, is attributed to Eta's Madrid command, whose structure the authorities acknowledge remains intact.In April, the leader of the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP), Jose Maria Aznar, narrowly escaped death when 50kg of explosives destroyed the vehicle in which he was travelling. On a hillside outside Kwangju is a cemetery where 130 of the victims are commemorated. Only 13 of the bodies buried there are identified, including two students who burned themselves to death years later in protest at the Kwangju cover-up.If everything goes to plan, Mr Chun will be charged with the Kwangju murders some time in the next 10 days.
He was arrested for questioning a week and a half ago, just before another ex-president, Roh Tae Woo, also believed to have colluded in the massacre, was charged with a massive bribery scandal.A special law, personally commissioned by President Kim Young Sam, is expected to be passed to allow their prosecution; the Kwangju trial is to take place next year and with massive public support for the prosecution, there is little doubt about its outcome But in Kwangju itself, the atmosphere is less than jubilant. It follows the deaths on Sunday of two Basque policemen who were shot in the back in the Basque region of Guipuzcoa. The young man accused of their murder had apparently taken part in previous Eta assaults.One of the six victims of yesterday's attack died of his injuries shortly after being taken to hospital Another was an elderly woman who was passing by. The four others who died were the occupants of the vehicle, which was destroyed: civilian drivers and mechanics employed by the navy.The Defence Minister, Gustavo Suarez Pertierra, who visited the scene, described the attack as "useless" and "outrageous".