Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spectacular souffle of politics, parades and visual extravaganzas -- all steeped in historical symbolism, spiced with controversy and served up to the world with characteristic elan. France threw itself a revolutionary birthday party last week, and the world joined in the celebration, as President Francois Mitterrand recalled the glory of 1789 as the "birth of the modern...
...festivities began with a tribute to the Declaration of the Rights of Man, attended by President George Bush and 33 other world leaders. Then Mitterrand inaugurated the glittering new $400 million steel-and-marble opera house overlooking the Place de la Bastille. The celebration culminated two days later on July 14, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, as fireworks exploded over the Place de la Concorde, once the site of the dreaded guillotine. Attended by a crowd of 500,000 and beamed to a worldwide TV audience of 700 million, the $15 million "opera-ballet" by French advertising...
...least the Soviet leader recruited President Francois Mitterrand as an advocate of perestroika. "It is the duty of the democracies," said Mitterrand, to help Soviet reforms succeed...
France is doing its share. The two leaders met for 15 hours to cement a relationship Mitterrand hopes will temper West Germany's growing dominance. They signed 22 agreements, including plans for a joint probe of Mars...
Gorbachev's main business, as usual, was promoting his favorite diplomatic theme of a "common European home," through which he seeks to place the Soviet Union in the Continent's political mainstream. Mitterrand gave at least partial credence to such a concept, saying that for the first time in 50 years, Europeans have a chance to take "the path of reconciliation." Many French remain dubious. Warns former Foreign Minister Jean Francois Poncet: "Gorbachev's common European home is a bid to engulf the European Community in a wider enterprise dominated by the Soviet Union...