Word: chaban
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...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...
...week included some familiar names in the hierarchy of the Socialist Party. The new Foreign Minister will be Claude Cheysson, 61, the architect of the European Community's liberal Third World trade policy. Banker Jacques Delors, 55, once a key adviser to former Gaullist Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, will be Minister of Economy and Finance. Gaston Deferre, 70, the mayor of Marseille, will be the nation's top policeman in his capacity as Minister of the Interior. Mitterrand's rival for the presidential nomination last year, Michel Rocard, 50, will be Minister for Planning and Regional Development...
Quite clearly, though, a possible China connection for the Afghan rebels is the one that most bothers the Kremlin. In talks with French National Assembly President Jacques Chaban-Delmas in Moscow last month, President Leonid Brezhnev bearishly declared that the Soviets would not hesitate to launch a preemptive strike against Chinese missile-launching facilities-if the U.S. even helped the People's Republic build up its strategic arsenal...
...blow to the aspiration of all mankind to establish respect for human rights." Italy's President Alessandro Pertini sent a cable of protest to Brezhnev. The West German government demanded that the Sakharovs be allowed to return to Moscow. France's president of the National Assembly, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, cut short his official visit to the Soviet Union and returned to Paris in indignation over the exile. "As a guest of the Soviet authorities I cannot interfere in internal affairs," he said. "But my own moral principles will not allow me to remain silent...