11.   A policeman in this northern Basque town was killed Friday when he went to check a suspicious vehicle and a car bomb went off, news reports said.

12.   After the death of Geresta, youths burned buses and hurled Molotov cocktails in a number of Basque towns.

13.   Also Monday, Spanish police arrested six suspected separatists in the northern Basque towns of Carranza y Sopelana.

14.   Eight of the arrests and the seizure of the explosives took place in pre-dawn raids in the northern Basque towns of Vitoria and Amorebieta.

15.   ETA -- the initials stand for Basque Homeland and Freedom -- was blamed for the shooting deaths of two local police officers directing traffic in a Basque town Friday.

16.   Evening rallies have been called in Madrid and in Basque towns and cities to protest the killing.

17.   In the first killing attributed to ETA since Blanco was slain, a policeman died in a bomb blast last Friday in a Basque town.

18.   Incidents were also reported in half a dozen other Basque towns.

19.   It went off as the vehicle was driving on the outskirts of this northern Basque town, close to the port city of Bilbao.

20.   Last Saturday, youths with Molotov cocktails burned down a three-story apartment building in another Basque town, Getxo.