11.   Overshadowing the campaign has been the recent resumption of violence by the Basque separatist group ETA, which has killed three people in car bombings since late January.

12.   Police attribute this and a series of hotel bombings in Mediterranean resort areas to the Basque separatist group ETA, which is fighting for an independent Basque homeland.

13.   The armed Basque group ETA has reportedly killed five people since ending a cease-fire last December.

14.   The Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility.

15.   The Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb close to a stadium in Madrid on Wednesday afternoon, hours before the start of an important European soccer game.

16.   The Basque group called it off late last year, raising fears of renewed violence.

17.   The government blamed the Basque separatist group ETA, and Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar vowed to resist the rebels.

18.   The French judicial police arrested a man on Wednesday who was described as the top military leader of the Basque separatist group ETA.

19.   The law is aimed at young supporters of the armed Basque separatist group ETA who carry out acts of street violence in the northern Basque region almost every weekend.

20.   The race has received threats from the Basque separatist group ETA, an acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom in the Basque language.