"Well, it looks like they've pulled it off," said one Western ambassador in Madrid as a wide smile spread across his face. There were similar signs of relief around Europe and in Washington last week after Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González Márquez achieved a remarkable turnaround in public opinion and won a referendum that will keep Spain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Only a week before the election, most polls had predicted that González would go down to a crushing defeat in the vote and be forced to make Spain the first country to withdraw totally from the 16-member alliance....
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