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What were your ambitions for the Continent? At the beginning of the 1970s, I was in the Cabinet of French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas and I watched the dollar wavering, the end of the Bretton Woods system and the first oil crisis. Faced with all that, I saw Europe as helpless, disabled and divided. I said to myself that, if this continues, it will undoubtedly mean the decline of Europe. The first measures I proposed as President of the European Commission permitted us to unite and react together against great shocks from outside, and to become more competitive...
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...
...spend a lot more time on my classes and on extracurricular activities," Chaban added...
...James M. Chaban '99, who was recently awarded the work-study option in his financial aid package, said he is not going to take advantage of his new option...
...self- made man. After graduating from high school, he worked for his father's employer by day and acquired degrees in law and economics at night. Politically, he has operated both sides of the fence. From 1969 to 1972 he worked as an adviser to Gaullist Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and from 1981 to 1984 he served as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand's Economy and Finance Minister. When in Paris, Delors lives with wife Marie in a five-room apartment near the Gare de Lyons. They have one married daughter Martine; their only son Jean Paul died of cancer...