41.   A former Socialist Party leader said Thursday that Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez knew about government-backed death squads that were used to hunt down Basque separatists.

42.   A former Socialist Party leader said Thursday that Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez knew about government-backed death squads used to hunt down Basque separatists.

43.   A governing party town councilor who allegedly made up a story about his kidnapping by suspected Basque separatists insisted Sunday his abduction tale was true.

44.   A judge ordered the provisional release on bail Wednesday of a retired Spanish Civil Guard captain implicated in the murders of two Basque separatists, news reports said.

45.   A former top interior ministry official testified Tuesday that he was within the inner government circle that created a shadowy paramilitary unit to combat Basque separatists in southern France.

46.   A car bomb blamed on Basque separatists blew the side out of a live-in Civil Guard barracks on Friday injuring three women and a man, news reports said.

47.   A judge interrogated a former defense minister Monday as part of an investigation of alleged government complicity in a secret war against Basque separatists.

48.   A live-in barracks of the paramilitary Civil Guard was damaged Saturday on being hit by four grenades believed fired by Basque separatists, police said.

49.   A Defense Ministry general died Saturday a month after suffering serious burns to most of his body in a bomb attack by Basque separatists.

50.   A police officer in this Mediterranean port city has been arrested in a series of bombings by Basque separatists, officials said Wednesday.