The Cuban authorities denied the request and police arrested the two when they left the embassy. The Interior minister believes that there is still another active ETA unit in the capital, but the one they broke up yesterday was planning to bring terror to the capital until Christmas. The alleged ETA terrorist Harriet Iragi, detained in Sevilla on October 17 following the murder of doctor Antonio Mu oz, yesterday repeated earlier declarations that members of the judiciary were targets for ETA, but he said that he had not specifically threatened the National Court judge Guillermo Ruiz Polanco when he declared before him last week. Iragi made the claims to another National Court judge Ismael Moreno who is investigating the alleged threats made by him on October 31. The appeal claims that the rights of a married couple cannot be extended to common law couples whatever their sexual orientation.
Today sees the last lottery for obligatory military service in Spain.
Those soldiers and sailors chosen tomorrow will have to do 9 months military service in the last call up before the Spanish military is completely professional. The ministry for defence has announced that for the second year running none of the youngsters will be sent to either of the North African enclaves Ceuta or Melilla given that the needs of both these posts are already met. However a serious shortfall remains in the numbers of youngsters coming forward to join the new professional army. Also a great number of the advertisements fail to give the name of the company involved. The study has promoted the federation to edit a leaflet giving advice to job hunters on how to avoid being fooled when searching for employment.