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while others are also threatened
but don't talk about it.
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I don't know if they take
advantage of it or not.
1:15:06
But I do believe that other people
can take advantage of them.
1:15:10
Power has got a tremendous
capacity for absorption,
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for manipulating things.
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ETA announced a year-long truce
between 1998 and 1999
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You, in the PP, think
you're going to bring us peace
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by means of
a police victory over ETA.
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We're sick of military victories.
1:15:38
ETA held an 18-month truce,
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even though they broke it
with their usual blindness.
1:15:45
The very minute that
ETA announced its truce,
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Mayor Oreja,
the Minister of the Interior,
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immediately announced
that it was a trick.
1:15:52
If there had been a statesman...
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It's possible that, at that point,
ETA would have ceased.
1:15:58
There was one point on which
to base a continuing truce.
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Bringing the prisoners home.
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It would have been
a small gesture,
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by which the left wing "abertzale"
would have felt
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that the truce was of some use.
1:16:15
But that would have meant
that there was a strong growth,
1:16:19
a strong political growth,
of nationalism,
1:16:22
and the government in Madrid
was not willing to tolerate that.
1:16:26
The Popular Party
only had one meeting with ETA.
1:16:30
A matter like ETA can't be
resolved in one conversation.
1:16:33
Two of the representatives
at that meeting were arrested.
1:16:38
ETA felt that, in some way,
it had been tricked.
1:16:44
And it's not that I want
to stand up for ETA, God forbid.
1:16:48
I think it was a big mistake
to take up arms again.
1:16:54
Atime will come when
the arms will be silent again
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and words will
play the main role.