Word: spaak
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DIED. Fernand Spaak, 57, Belgian diplomat who headed the European Community Commission's delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community...