Word: antipacifist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special loss. The 62-year-old former magistrate is a longtime confidant of the President's. Hernu almost single-handedly persuaded the Socialist Party in 1976 to support the French nuclear force de frappe, which it had officially opposed for six years. The Defense Minister personified the promilitary, antipacifist and Western-oriented thinking of the Mitterrand regime. He was also highly popular with France's armed forces. One opposition leader admitted that Hernu was "the only Socialist minister who should be kept in a new administration...
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