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...corridors of French power, there was also a sense of relief that the Iraqi reactor was gone, although diplomats were sharply opposed to the Israeli tactics Foreign Minister Cheysson had already declared that "we Socialists would never have signed this [nuclear] contract. At least not without a clearer idea of Iraqi intentions. And not without clearer guarantees that it could be used only for peaceful purposes." Paris would likely demand much tougher restrictions for the reactor if asked to rebuild...
...simultaneously beefing up European missile capacity while seeking arms-limitation talks with Moscow. Said a broadly smiling Chancellor after his three-hour meeting with Mitterrand: "Franco-German friendship no longer depends on us personally. It has become an indisputable fact." Later in the week, however, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson declared that the Paris-Bonn axis would not operate at the expense of other European partners...
...longtime Socialist Party stalwart, was named Premier in the interim government that will rule until the parliamentary elections take place next month. Other ministerial appointments announced later in the 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...
...third possibility for Premier is Banker Jacques Delors, 55, but he has been mentioned as a more likely candidate for an economics ministry. A key member of the Mitterrand team and a candidate for the Quai D'Orsay, France's Foreign Ministry, is veteran Diplomat Claude Cheysson. As a commissioner of the European Community, Cheysson, 61, led the development of its generous trade policy toward the Third World...
...nations and 19 "poor" ones (which included some nouveau riche oil-producing countries), the North made what it considered a generous offer, especially given its painfully slow economic recovery. The South grudgingly accepted the package, but termed it quite inadequate and refused to give anything in exchange. Said Claude Cheysson, the European Community's commissioner for development: "We were within a hair of a breakdown. If we had known what a risk we were taking, we might never have started this dialogue...