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Spain Papers Review - Monday August 25 2008
By h.b. - Aug 25, 2008 - 11:30 AM

Today's El País front page

The silver medal for Spain in the Basketball at the closing Olympics and more on the Madrid plane crash lead the papers this Monday.

El Mundo leads with more on the Madrid plane crash last Wednesday which resulted in the death of 154 people.
It headlines a statement by Javier Aguado, one of the two flight inspectors who says ‘The Ministry for Development knows that there are airlines who put security at risk’.
He says a company repaired the cracks in the fuselage of its planes with plasticized paper and glue for more than ten years, and the same company carried out four flights with an engine which should have been replaced for overheating. He claims that the companies force their pilots and technicians to not denounce irregularities, and the Administration intimidates the inspectors.
El Mundo also notes that another Spanair plane, the same model as the one which crashed last week, had to make an emergency landing for safety reasons yesterday.
El País says that the lack of power in the engines of the MD82 is at the centre of the investigation into the crash, and the possibility that the reverse thrust could have been applied to the right engine just before take off. El País notes that the Interior Ministry has warned that the identification of the bodies is taking longer than at first expected.
ABC leads with that and headlines that the Ministry has admitted that the identification could take 15 days. The paper says the families have demanded real times after first being told 72 hours.
The paper reports that one of the survivors, the mother of the 8 year old child, has now entered into what is thought to be an irreversible coma. The child was widely reported in the press after the accident to be seen walking around the wreckage asking ‘When does the film end?’.

El Mundo reports that a fire in a generator at the Vandellòs II nuclear plant near Tarragona means that the station will be shut down for several weeks.
El País says that fire crews took nearly two hours to put out the blaze, and that the management of the plant were not able to explain the cause of the fire.
Público leads with the fire and says it did not affect the radioactive area.

The Olympics have ended on a high for Spain with the country’s basketball side coming close to beating the United States in a dramatic and memorable final.
El Mundo has a photo of Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant embracing after the match – both play for the Lakers in the United States.
El Mundo reports that the absent Calderón considers that with another referee Spain would have won the match.
The paper notes Spain also got a Bronze in Handball, and that with five gold medals Spain has seen her second best ever result, beating Atlanta in 1996.
El País has a page wide photo of the basketball side and notes that Spain leaves Beijing with 18 medals and what they call a silver of gold in the basketball.
ABC also has a front page photo of Pau Gasol, this time making a basket. The paper says the gold went to the United States, but the admiration went to Spain.

ABC reports that the Batasuna activist Arnaldo Otegi is to be released from prison on Saturday. The paper considers that only the hard core of the Socialist Party in the region thinks that his release will give any new opportunity to the peace process in the medium term. The paper says that ETA’s outlawed political wing, Batasuna, remains without a leader and with problems organising itself.

El Mundo continues its series on 30 years of democracy in Spain and today reveals that most Spaniards consider Adolfo Suárez to have been the best Prime Minister over the time.
And talking of ex Prime Ministers, El Mundo notes that in her autobiography, Margaret Thatcher’s daughter has revealed that the Iron Lady is suffering from senile dementia.

Few international stories on the Spanish front pages today. El Mundo mentions that the French authorities think that eight climbers who vanished in an avalanche on Montblanc are dead.

El País says that Barack Obama wants to catapult himself into the lead in the presidential race in the United States from the Democratic Convention.

El País has a feature on the Notting Hill Carnival in London, and notes it all started as a way to stop the racial conflicts in the area.

And finally,
A clear sign of the economic slowdown with the amount of petrol sold across Spain in July down 15% on a year ago. It’s the largest fall since 1993.

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