Word: chirac
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Sancton and Chirac even share an affinity for New Orleans jazz. Sancton is an accomplished clarinetist with eight albums to his credit, the latest of which, Louisiana Fairy Tale, will be released this spring on the GHB label. He and Chriac traded jazz stories on a private jet during the presidential campaign. Among them: "[Chirac] was recollecting his penniless student days in New Orleans in the '50s and how one evening at a jazz club, a musician befriended him and bought him dinner. I think it makes a nice historical footnote that one night at Galatoire's, the future President...
...that campaign jet landed, Chirac offered to inscribe a satirical book about himself for Sancton's son Julian. "He kept a number of officials waiting in the rain while he wrote a dedication," says Sancton. "That gesture, thoughtfully signing a book that made fun of him, said a lot about Chirac as a man. Of course, it also said something about him as a politician. The next time Chirac runs, in 2002, my son will be a voter...
...marching to demand more teachers and resources. Algerian radicals have conducted a wave of terrorist bombings, and soldiers carrying machine guns patrol the Metro and train stations. The unemployment rate is 11.8%, one of the highest in the industrialized world. After only six months in office, conservative President Jacques Chirac has seen his approval rating collapse. Meanwhile--as if there weren't enough problems at home--much of the outside world is still up in arms about renewed French nuclear testing in the Pacific...
These are troubling times in France, and there may be worse to come. With Chirac promising two years of belt tightening in order to shrink the government's huge deficits, the country faces the grim prospect of continued high unemployment and a paroxysm of social unrest that some fear could match the upheaval of May 1968. Chirac is betting that a dose of fiscal discipline will be rewarded by the return of strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce...
...Chirac, 63, a two-time Prime Minister who will preside over the nation until at least 2002, has the reputation of being a pragmatic politician unencumbered by ideology. Yet he appeared to outline something of a vision while campaigning for last May's election, calling for bold reforms to stimulate the economy, heal the divisive "fractures" within French society and find inventive solutions to seemingly intractable problems--the main one being unemployment. The plan called for tax cuts, lower interest rates and job-creating measures...