ANGEL YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN. So reads a crude sign on the side of a furniture plant near Nuarbe, a mountainside hamlet deep in Basque country 220 miles northeast of Madrid.
The sign refers to Angel Otaegui, 33, a Basque terrorist who was executed by a firing squad a week ago for his part in the killing of a Spanish policeman.
The return of his body to Nuarbe, where it was buried at night in the local cemetery by the light of lanterns, transformed the village into the focus of a small, poignant...
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