Article: Spanish paper apologizes for Trade Center ad.(El Pais, online subscription campaign)(Brief Article)

Byline: IVAN CASTANO

[Madrid] Spain's biggest newspaper El Pais apologized for launching an online subscription campaign for its Web site that used images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to win subscribers to its Web site elpais.es.

The campaign, e-mailed to the site's 50,000 registered users, used two images of the downtown Manhattan skyline. The first showed the World Trade Center's Twin Towers standing out from the New York horizon; the second depicted the gloomy void left after Sept. 11. It carried the copy, "Un dia da para mucho. Imaginese lo que puede suceder en tres meses ["A lot can happen in a day. Imagine what can happen in three months].'' ...

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