Word: zapatero
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...members attached to its pacifist tradition came to blows with those who ultimately won a precedent-shattering vote to authorize putting Japanese troops into Iraq without a U.N. mandate. And in Spain, Prime Minister José María Aznar accused opposition leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of "laying his hopes on the coffins of Spanish soldiers" to prove that Spain's involvement is unwise. But despite the death of Spanish naval captain Manuel Martín-Oar, 56, in last month's bombing of the U.N.'s Baghdad headquarters, the Spanish public remains quiet - and Aznar...