Word: chirac
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...FUTURE WILL PROVE THAT FRANCE was right in conducting its nuclear tests. A lot of people agree with President Jacques Chirac and respect his decision to carry out the test, despite the hysteria that Greenpeace and others are trying to spread everywhere. Don't imagine that the French people are against the nuclear testing. Did you see 1 million French in the streets of Paris demanding the cessation of the nuclear tests in French Polynesia? No, you did not, and you will not, for the truth is that we agree with the decision of our President. NICOLAS NOLF Grenoble, France...
...WOULD ASK CHIRAC, "EXACTLY FOR whom does France need a nuclear deterrent?" Surely, the problems of rampant terrorism and growing public distaste for your political hubris cannot be affected by such tactics. The world does not need a Western Vladimir Zhirinovsky. MICHAEL ZUCKER Tel Aviv Via E-mail...
France and its new President Jacques Chirac show no overt indications of pique at Washington's sudden front-running role. In fact, officials in Paris take some credit for the development, pointing out that it was Chirac who pushed for a well-armed Rapid Reaction Force and urged NATO to show its muscle. "I am delighted," said Chirac, "that the Americans have become strongly involved for the past few weeks." The British were solidly behind air strikes until, as Defense Minister Michael Portillo said, "the threat to Sarajevo is lifted." Privately, London had been asking Washington to broker a local...
...Chirac, whose decision was accompanied by a pledge to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty that is due to be completed late next year, justified his decision to resume testing entirely on technical and scientific grounds. His predecessor Francois Mitterrand, he explained, had interrupted a critical series of tests "a little too early" by declaring a moratorium in April 1992. In order to ensure the reliability of its nuclear deterrent, said Chirac, France had no choice but to complete its "experimental program...
Many analysts, however, took a more cynical view of Chirac's motivations. Recalling that it was Charles de Gaulle who had first engendered France's force de frappe in the '60s, they accused Chirac of trying to prove his Gaullist credentials and burnish his presidential stature by reaffirming France's status as a nuclear power. "He thought he could prove to the French and the world that because of his decision France was back, and he was an authentic President," wrote Serge July, influential editor of the left-leaning daily Liberation. "Instead the world and the French have witnessed...