Word: chirac
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Boris Yeltsin has been hospitalized with an apparent heart attack for the second time in four months. Although dogged by persistent health problems, the 64-year-old Russian President had appeared fitter in recent weeks, enough so to challenge French President Jacques Chirac to a tennis match. "Considering that Yeltsin has already outlived the average Russian male by seven years, Yeltsin's condition can be considered serious," says TIME's Sally Donnelly in Moscow. "It is unknown how long he will remain in the hospital, although a week is the common period. However, the three presidents from the former Yugoslavia...
...JACQUES CHIRAC French President faces strikes at home, anti-bomb protests abroad...
...suspected of Tuesday's Paris subway bombing has threatening more terrorism unless France severs virtually all ties with the military government of Algeria, its former colony. In a statement published in the London-based Arab-language newspaper Asharq al Awsat, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris...
...also bitterly opposes French President Jacques Chirac's scheduled meeting next month with Algerian President Zamine Zeroual at the U.N. Paris bureau chief Thomas Sanction says the GIA "has vowed to continue waging 'holy war' on French soil until the French cut off their economic support of the Algiers government. Earlier this week, the GIA reportedly said it would target French journalists, just as it has targeted Algerian newsmen and intellectuals back home." Sancton reports that the GIA has also said that it will not stop the bombing campaign until French President Jacques Chirac personally converts to Islam...
...DISAGREE WITH CHIRAC'S POLICIES IN general and in particular with the carrying out of nuclear tests in French Polynesia. Nevertheless, I ask myself why Australia and New Zealand have not said a word about the Chinese nuclear tests that have continued to take place. Why don't they protest against the nuclear power plants still working in the former U.S.S.R.? Have the Australians forgotten that their country sells uranium to France? Chirac's government has decided to conduct the tests because of the French nuclear lobby, which represents companies that give thousands of people their jobs. FABRICE LEVEQUE Fresnoy...