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Spain's PM Faulted on Oil Spill Response

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Published December 24, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is taking heat for his government's handling of the offshore oil spill -- the nation's worst environmental disaster. Jerome Socolovsky reports that fishermen are furious it took officials so long to organize the cleanup.

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