The Washington Post, March 17th, 2004
It was 2 in the morning Thursday when Spanish Ambassador Javier Ruperez got the phone call from Madrid informing him of the disaster: scores of civilians killed by bombs as they rode the train to work. He did not get to bed until 2 the next morning and has scarcely slept four hours on any night since, he said in an interview yesterday. Ruperez said the intensity of the attack -- plus the rush to prepare for a visit by President Bush and first lady Laura Bush at the ambassadorial residence on Foxhall Road to sign a book of condolences and the organization of a memorial Mass at St. Matthew's Cat...
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