31.   Two mainstream Basque parties said the new transfers were not enough either and that Aznar needed to take much bolder action to move the region toward peace.

32.   Two deputies of a pro-independence Basque party were absent.

33.   Two leaders of a Basque party linked to the armed separatist group ETA were brought before a judge on Wednesday for their roles in a prohibited demonstration.

34.   Two moderate Basque nationalist parties agreed Friday to try to form a new government, nearly two months after elections were held in the troubled region of northern Spain.

35.   When Herri Batasuna first showed the videotape last year, the then-Socialist government instructed the attorney general to investigate whether the Basque party should be outlawed.

36.   Yet, the three pro-independence Basque parties hold a slim majority of seats in the regional parliament.

37.   His minister for territorial administration, Mariano Rajoy, rejected calls from a moderate Basque party for the government to negotiate with ETA.

38.   His party is still negotiating for the support of a moderate Basque nationalist party that has five seats.

39.   A leader of the Basque nationalist party Herri Batasuna was found dead by his family in the northern town of Mallabia, a party official said.

40.   Basque political parties failed to work out a common stance towards the violent ETA separatist group when they met here Friday, one of their leaders said.