| basque homeland and freedom | (n) a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees, Syn. ETA, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Example: in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials |