Word: chirac
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LYON, France: One day after unanimously denouncing terrorism, G-7 leaders lashed out at the U.S. for threatening to punish foreign companies that trade with terrorist nations. It's a question of manners, said French President Jacques Chirac: "I don't think economic retaliation is most effective. Taking an entire population hostage is not elegant." At issue is the newly enacted Helms-Burton law, under which a foreign company could be sued in the U.S. for doing business with Cuba. TIME White House correspondent J.F.O. McAllister reports from Lyon that Clinton's hands are tied by election-year politics...
Even those who disdain the American system admit now their own is badly broken. President Jacques Chirac of France, who hosted a jobs summit last week of the seven rich industrial countries, called for a "third path" between the too cozy welfare state and the "precarious" U.S. labor market. Taking the American approach immediately is simply not an option. "Any political party that tried would run into a cultural wall upholding public service, entitlements, paid vacations and so forth," says Jean-Marie Chevalier, a University of Paris economics professor. "They'd be kicked...
...Instead, Chirac's "third path" will eventually lead Europeans toward the American model. They will take it slow: along the way they'll witness more strikes, as in France last December; governments thrown out by voters, as in Sweden; and showdowns between unions and employers, as in Germany now. The politicians could make the ride easier on themselves if they'd start telling people that the destination might not be so horrible after all. --With reporting by Greg Burke/Rome and Thomas Sancton/Paris
...word that he just might run for another five-year term as U.N. Secretary-General this fall. The headstrong diplomat's adroit dispensation of U.N. patronage could make him formidable, and he would probably be supported by President Hosni Mubarak of his native Egypt and French President Jacques Chirac. That prospect rattles members of the Clinton Administration, since Bob Dole gets applause by pillorying Boutros-Ghali as an architect of Clinton's foreign policy. The Administration does not yet have an alternative, but may try to dissuade Boutros-Ghali by threatening to exercise the U.S. veto. Who else might...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: Speaking before a joint session of Congress, French President Jacques Chirac said that his country has forever finished with its controversial nuclear testing program. Although Chirac announced an end to the testing two days ago, many Democrats boycotted the Capitol Hill speech. They charged that after conducting six nuclear tests over the past six months, the announcement came far too late. "We return the insult with our insult," said Eleanor Holmes Norton, congressional delegate from the District of Columbia. House Republicans late Wednesday night blocked an effort to withdraw Chirac's invitation. But despite a last-minute...