The two branches of ETA began a campaign of attacks against the nuclear power plant of Lemóniz and its sponsoring company, Iberduero, which would last until 1984, with a total of 300 attacks. Soldiers were now potential targets for ETA. The so-called bereziak (special) commandos split from ETApm and joined ETAm. The two branches of ETA continued with their attacks. In October the Spanish Parliament passed an Amnesty Law for all the terrorist prisoners. In September the newspaper Egin appeared, which took a radical Basque nationalist position. The Government of Adolfo Suárez and ETApm hold conversations in Geneva which resulted in the banishment of the most important ETA prisoners in May.ĮTAm, EHAS, Euskal Herriko Alderdi Sozialista (Socialist Party of the Basque Country), and LAIA boycotted the general elections in June, which were the first democratic elections to be held after the Second Republic. In May a pro-amnesty week ended with the death of several people in the Basque Country because of police repression.
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