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...game than they play. To be sure, in May 1991 President François Mitterrand appointed France's first and only female Prime Minister, Edith Cresson - but she was tossed aside in less than a year. Jacques Chirac's party was led for three years by Michèle Alliot-Marie, now the Defense Minister, who is as formidable a politician as Royal and would be a potential presidential candidate herself if Sarkozy didn't have his party's nomination sewn up. But on the whole, the French political parties remain clannish clusters of ideological currents owing fealty to male...
...last week, Europe - particularly France - took a closer look at the situation and effectively gulped in horror. A defiant Hizballah said it had no intention of handing over its arms. The rules of engagement under which the international force would act remain "fuzzy," French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie insisted, to worried nods of agreement from other European capitals. Until those rules get clarified, European countries are torn between a commitment to the U.N. peacekeeping process and grave concerns that they are sending their soldiers into what one Elysée official called "a dangerous, difficult and maybe...
...France will also maintain its naval presence, which has been shuttling evacuees to Cyprus. What it balks at is committing large numbers of troops to the enlarged U.N. force itself. "I remember the painful experience of other operations where U.N. forces didn't have sufficiently precise missions or means," Alliot-Marie told French radio, recalling the deaths of 71 French soldiers in the ill-conceived mission to Bosnia in the early 1990s. In October 1983, 58 French peacekeepers died in a suicide bombing in Beirut widely attributed to a precursor of Hizballah. "The sense...
...Chirac loyalists hoping to fend off Sarkozy's more militant conservative challenge within the government were quick to take up that comforting analysis. Defense minister Miche´le Alliot-Marie said in a radio interview, "I think the Germans have responded in a way that certainly does not allow the application of a totally liberal model." In other words, back off, Sarkozy, the more moderate tack of the Villepin government is not only what the French people want, but what the Germans apparently favor as well. That means marshalling the power of the state to solve problems like entrenched unemployment rather...
...Michèle Alliot-Marie will be in this business long after [U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H.] Rumsfeld has received his just rewards,” he said...