1.   Gamesmanship apart, is there really a chance to salvage the best opportunity yet for peace in the Basque region?

2.   And goodwill gestures the group had asked for, such as moving Basque political prisoners to jails near the Basque region, were slow in coming.

3.   But the Popular Party, despite admitting to disappointment over the elections, refused to countenance a change in its hard-line policy regarding the Basque region.

4.   Each of the competing parties tried to present itself as the best guarantor of a permanent peace in the three-province Basque region.

5.   Even in the Basque region there is not much support for the terrorists.

6.   Floyd, who now lives in Phoenix, grew up in the French resort town of St. Jean de Luz, in the Basque region near the Pyrenees mountains.

7.   Herri Batasuna lawyers argued unsuccessfully that the video simply aimed to further the peace process in the troubled Basque region.

8.   In a sense, in recent decades Corsica has been to France what the Basque region has been to Spain and Northern Ireland has been to Britain.

9.   In addition, trials of terrorist suspects would be held in Madrid instead of in the Basque region.

10.   In Spain, the government has granted some autonomy to the Basque region and has given it considerable authority over taxation, education, and the police.