Kidnapings Spain

Two more kidnap suspects were arrested Friday after Spanish police rescued a millionaire's 5-year-old daughter by storming the villa where she was held being held captive and shooting an abductor trying to use her as a shield. The hide-out was 200 yards from a police station in the coastal town of San Roque, near Gibraltar. "Don't cry, mommy, I'm all right," Melodie Nakachian told her mother as her father, Raymond, brought her home after the 12-day ordeal.

More than 2 million Spaniards marched in Madrid and Barcelona to protest the killing of a young politician by Basque separatists, hours after his hometown paid an emotional tribute at his burial. The demonstration was believed to be the largest since Spaniards marched in protest of a military coup attempt in 1981.

Businessman Jaime Caballero, kidnaped two months ago by Basque separatists, was found chained to a tree but in good physical condition Saturday after an anonymous caller tipped police to his whereabouts.

Black ribbons and white sheets of mourning adorned apartment balconies in the northern city of Ermua on Sunday as residents honored a young city councilman kidnapped and slain by the Basque separatist group ETA. There was no known motive for targeting 29-year-old Miguel Angel Blanco other than the fact that he was a member of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's conservative Popular Party.

Three more suspects in the kidnaping of a 5-year-old girl from her millionaire Spanish father's house were arrested in Paris, bringing to nine the number held in Spain and in France. The Paris arrests hardened evidence that the kidnaping of Melodie Nakachian, who was rescued in a police raid Friday in the Spanish town of San Roque, was masterminded in France. Five suspects are being held in Paris and four in Spain.

A ransom of about $2.2 million was paid for a kidnaped Spanish businessman held by Basque separatists for 84 days, officials said. Industrialist Adolfo Villoslada Martin, 49, was in good health after being held in a small room, apparently below ground, in Pamplona, 250 miles northeast of Madrid.

An elite police group early this morning raided a house in this southern port city and freed the 6-year-old daughter of a Lebanese millionaire kidnaped 11 days ago, a spokesman for the interior ministry said. She was unharmed. At least two people were arrested in the 2 a.m. raid that freed Melodie Nakachian, he added. There was a brief scuffle between the police and people in the house, he added, and at least one of the girl's abductors was injured.

More than 2 million Spaniards marched in Madrid and Barcelona to protest the killing of a young politician by Basque separatists, hours after his hometown paid an emotional tribute at his burial. The demonstration was believed to be the largest since Spaniards marched in protest of a military coup attempt in 1981.

Black ribbons and white sheets of mourning adorned apartment balconies in the northern city of Ermua on Sunday as residents honored a young city councilman kidnapped and slain by the Basque separatist group ETA. There was no known motive for targeting 29-year-old Miguel Angel Blanco other than the fact that he was a member of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's conservative Popular Party.

A ransom of about $2.2 million was paid for a kidnaped Spanish businessman held by Basque separatists for 84 days, officials said. Industrialist Adolfo Villoslada Martin, 49, was in good health after being held in a small room, apparently below ground, in Pamplona, 250 miles northeast of Madrid.

The Basque guerrilla group ETA released an industrialist after holding him captive for more than eight months in Spain's longest political kidnaping, police said. Emiliano Revilla, 60, a sausage manufacturer and real estate tycoon, walked to his home in Madrid after being set free by ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom), which has been fighting since 1968 for independence for three Spanish provinces near the French border.

Two more kidnap suspects were arrested Friday after Spanish police rescued a millionaire's 5-year-old daughter by storming the villa where she was held being held captive and shooting an abductor trying to use her as a shield. The hide-out was 200 yards from a police station in the coastal town of San Roque, near Gibraltar. "Don't cry, mommy, I'm all right," Melodie Nakachian told her mother as her father, Raymond, brought her home after the 12-day ordeal.

An elite police group early this morning raided a house in this southern port city and freed the 6-year-old daughter of a Lebanese millionaire kidnaped 11 days ago, a spokesman for the interior ministry said. She was unharmed. At least two people were arrested in the 2 a.m. raid that freed Melodie Nakachian, he added. There was a brief scuffle between the police and people in the house, he added, and at least one of the girl's abductors was injured.

Businessman Jaime Caballero, kidnaped two months ago by Basque separatists, was found chained to a tree but in good physical condition Saturday after an anonymous caller tipped police to his whereabouts.