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...leading up to national elections on March 6, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher urged Moscow "to follow its words with deeds." Responding to the Andropov proposal to reduce the number of Soviet missiles to fewer than 162 if France and Britain trimmed their nuclear arsenals, French President Franç Mitterrand warned that it was "useless to dream that France would reduce its present armaments in the slightest...
Giscard was elected president in 1974 fellowing the death of incumbent Georges Poinpidou. Running on a center right ticket. He narrowly defeated Sociatist challenger Francors Mitterrand...
...Mitterrand unseated Giscard in May 1981. winning the election by less than one percentage point. French political experts believe Giscard will make another run for the presidency when Mitterrand's term ends...
...anniversary prompted a worldwide chorus of statements and demonstrations calling for an end to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. "The United States does not intend to forget these brave people and their struggle," President Ronald Reagan said last week. The Socialist government of French President Francois Mitterrand did not mention the Soviet Union by name, but it "denounced all foreign intervention in Afghanistan's internal affairs." West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher was blunter, pledging support for "the Afghan people in their demand for freedom." In Tehran several hundred protesters marched outside the Soviet embassy...
...glassmaker from Tours had a little private fun as he created the new windows with a touch of Gallic wit. Flanking Jesus in the Resurrection scene on one of the windows are two Roman guards dressed in gladiatorial drag and bearing the distinct likenesses of French President Francois Mitterrand and Communist Party Leader Georges Marchais. No one noticed at first, and now Father Louis Hubert and his parishioners are content to let them be. "There were a few nasty souls," says Father Hubert, "who intimated that Jesus bears a strange resemblance to [former President Valery] Giscard d'Estaing...