* FILE ** Croatia's prime minister Ivica Racan is seen during an interview at his party's headquarters in Zagreb in this Tuesday Nov. 18, 2003 file photo. Croatia's former Prime Minister Ivica Racan, hospitalized and suffering from cancer that has spread to his brain, was close to death, a political aide said Friday April 13, 2007. Racan, 63, who headed Croatia's first staunchly pro-Western government from 2000 to 2003 and afterward led the country's strongest political opposition, was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his shoulder two months ago. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)