Word: mitterrand
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...France seems set to begin a historic experiment in power sharing. It is up to Mitterrand to choose within 20 days a Premier who reflects the new right-of-center majority. Since his Socialists ran better than anticipated, the President has a stronger position, but his task will still be difficult. Had the conservatives scored the resounding victory that had been predicted, Mitterrand would have had little choice but to name as Premier Jacques Chirac, 53, the mayor of Paris and the energetic leader of the R.P.R., the largest opposition party. Chirac had made it clear that if he were...
...Mitterrand now has more options. He is expected to show respect for the prevailing conservative trend, but he can find someone in the opposition closer to his own thinking. He might, for example, consider former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 71, who served as Premier from 1969 to 1972. Another possibility is Simone Veil, 58, a former Health Minister and onetime president of the European Parliament...
...from Milan to Madrid. Thousands marched through streets, calling President Reagan a murderer and demanding that their country withdraw from NATO. The protesters mirrored the official positions of most European governments. When the U.S. planes went into Libya, only the British government of Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian government of Bettino Craxi harshly criticized the operation, while Helmut Kohl's West Germany was anxiously quiet. TIME's Paris bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante, sent...
...retaliation is the military one. European officers, indeed even some senior NATO figures, argue that the U.S. strike was not strong enough to attain its military objectives. It neither destroyed nor destabilized the Gaddafi regime. It may, instead, have compelled moderate Arab governments to rally behind Gaddafi. Mitterrand and Chirac complained to U.S. Envoy Vernon Walters that a limited bombing raid could stir up a new wave of Islamic extremism. "With a victory like that, who needs a defeat?" said Dominique Moïsi, a French strategic expert...
...happened before, the big questions about unity at the meeting may revolve around French President François Mitterrand. This year France's position at the summit is cloudier than ever because of the installation in March of Conservative Jacques Chirac as Socialist Mitterrand's Premier. Chirac has decided to put in an appearance at the meeting, throwing the protocol-conscious Japanese into a tizzy. One compromise: Chirac will show up at Akasaka only after the opening state dinner, thus avoiding a major problem with head-table seating...