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Often TIME'S staff members invite distinguished statesmen whom they have met as correspondents. Former Bonn Bureau Chief William Mader helped to bring in West Germany's then Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Onetime Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller invited French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. As Senior Editor Muller puts it, "Hearing someone present a policy in person, regardless of what other information or analysis you have, helps you to understand that policy better...
...allies began registering deep disapproval. In a supposedly confidential letter to some Latin American countries that promptly leaked in Colombia, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson offered, "in cooperation with one or more European countries," to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan ports. It was a clumsy play intended to prod Washington into adopting a less bellicose policy in Central America. No European country expressed interest in his proposal. But the concern the letter indicated was real. Said Cheysson last week: "If one accepts it [mining] in one part of the world, there is no reason not to accept...
French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson was the first official to break the news of Andropov's death. Shortly before lunchtime on Friday, he interrupted a meeting of European Community and Third World foreign ministers in Brussels to announce solemnly that "the party leader of one of the greatest nations of the world has passed away." Cheysson was nearly two hours ahead of Moscow with his news bulletin. Embarrassed French officials later explained that Cheysson had misread a garbled cable from Paris and taken informed supposition for fact...
...stern, almost ascetic in his thick glasses. He impressed Western visitors to the Kremlin with his command of facts, his sharpness of mind and his sardonic sense of humor. But somehow a sense of his true personality always seemed to elude them. The Soviet leader, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson remarked after a trip to Moscow in February 1983, was "extraordinarily devoid of the passion and human warmth" that he had encountered elsewhere in the country...
...drift in Common Market policies was criticized last week in a speech by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who warned that the European Community "has fallen far short of its original objectives" and faces difficulties that could destroy it. Cheysson said the Community lacks "cohesion and solidarity" and has had too little impact on international events...