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For the fil'$l time since the Antiterrorist Liberation Group CG!\lJ appaared in
1983. two of its members have been sentenced 10 jail terms. The men were arrested
in September 1984. convicted of carryine weapons. and sentenced by ia Bayonne
court to five·ycar terms. In ~i.ris. three other GAL lnCIU,~re arrested on
13 April and charecd ·... ith the 30 March murder of a Spanis" Basque journalist .
. judicial hcarinp onthcsc three beean in Bayonne on 11 April. while Spain has - ~
be,un extradition proccedincs....
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Extradited ET A M~ Rdcucd
On 19 April a Spanish criminal court released two of the thrcc ETA terrorists
extradited from France in September. ne third was convicted and sentenced to S4
yean in prisoa. • , g , ad.'
The Spanish press is specula tin, that Madrid will noc request fuither extraditions
but will henceforth rely on French expulsions of alleaed terrorists to third
coUjtria. The acquittals 4 ZI I .. I n tJ't,..i"
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counterterrorist coopention. We believe. however. that Paris may view them as
proof of the fairness of the Sp;lnish judicial system aiid: therefore. they could
encourI,e additional cltnditi"n~ ..".
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ETA ...... Hit Mediten'U1C811 Raoc1s
On J May ETA be,an • bambini campaian .,ainst Spanish resorts. So far II
bombs have been detonated in the resort towns of Alicante:. JavC3. Villajoyosa.
Dcmesa de: Campoamor. Bcnidorm. Valenc:a, and Sidi San Juan. The bombltimed
for the: start of the resort season-have caused no injuries and little dama,e.
ETA h2S not attacked tourist tarltets since: 1919.~
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Wife al KiUaped lounalist Recdycs Vidcatape
On 9 May, the wife of Alec Collett received a videotape of her husband from an
anonymous source. Collett. a British journalist who works for the UN Relief and
Works Acency for Palestinian rcfulccs. was abducted south of Beirut on
2S March. The little-known ~CY9lutionary Ora:anization of Socialist Muslims
(ROSM) claimed responsibility fofthc kidnapiillif: On the tape. Collett appeared
healthy and said that he has been hcld in Beirut sin~ the 25th and that he bas
been receivine medication for his diabetes. The tape: contained no demands for his b.3
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