Word: chirac
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...sick during his last months in office that "he was no longer capable of carrying out his duties," a claim that Mitterrand's family and the politicians who worked with--and against--him deny. In any event, he turned over the keys of office to his successor, Jacques Chirac, last May. Finally, three Saturdays ago, according to the French newspaper Le Monde, he asked a doctor what would happen if he stopped taking all his medications except for pain-killers. The doctor replied that he would be dead in three days. Within three days, Mitterrand died...
PARIS: French President Jacques Chirac, who has been severely criticized for months for conducting a series of nuclear tests, said that France has ended the tests, which had been scheduled to continue through March. "The reality is that the French got all the information they needed from the detonations," reports TIME's Bruce Crumley from Paris. "The political damage from the tests was minimal, primarily because the U.S. and Britain didn't condemn the tests very strongly when they were originally announced. The big question is how other countries who are developing nuclear weapons will react to the fact that...
...beginnings were darkened as well by revelations in 1994 that during World War II he worked for the collaborationist Vichy regime before joining the Resistance. He was gravely ill from prostate cancer when he handed over the presidency on May 17 to his longtime rival, Neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac. Mitterrand was the longest-serving President in French history...
...Chirac: You know, I have never paid any attention to the polls for two reasons. The first is that I think they are generally wrong; the second is that I think a politician should be a leader and not a follower. That means he should base his decisions on the commitments he has made, on his idea of the future, on his vision of the country, and not on public opinion. I have seven years before me and a great determination, so of course it is not the polls that will give me doubts...
...Chirac: [Smiles.] I am absolutely sure of it. I'm an optimist by nature...