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...right-of-center majority. Since his Socialists ran better than anticipated, the President has a stronger position, but his task will still be difficult. Had the conservatives scored the resounding victory that had been predicted, Mitterrand would have had little choice but to name as Premier Jacques Chirac, 53, the mayor of Paris and the energetic leader of the R.P.R., the largest opposition party. Chirac had made it clear that if he were named Premier, he, not Mitterrand, would determine the government's basic policies...
During the last week of the campaign, candidates stumped the country looking to win a few last votes. On the right, Chirac wrapped up his whirlwind campaign in Paris, where he proclaimed, "It is time to say that [those] who have been governing us do not represent either the values or the history of France and have to go!" The Socialists also trotted out some vote-getting rhetoric. "I promise you, my friends," cried Premier Laurent Fabius, "that if we stay in power, a year from now France will have inflation of 2%--among the lowest rates in the world...
...Milan to Madrid. Thousands marched through streets, calling President Reagan a murderer and demanding that their country withdraw from NATO. The protesters mirrored the official positions of most European governments. When the U.S. planes went into Libya, only the British government of Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian government of Bettino Craxi harshly criticized the operation, while Helmut Kohl's West Germany was anxiously quiet. TIME's Paris bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante, sent this...
...retaliation is the military one. European officers, indeed even some senior NATO figures, argue that the U.S. strike was not strong enough to attain its military objectives. It neither destroyed nor destabilized the Gaddafi regime. It may, instead, have compelled moderate Arab governments to rally behind Gaddafi. Mitterrand and Chirac complained to U.S. Envoy Vernon Walters that a limited bombing raid could stir up a new wave of Islamic extremism. "With a victory like that, who needs a defeat?" said Dominique Moïsi, a French strategic expert...
...began writing computer programs at the age of twelve and sold one to Apple Computer a year later. Now, at 15, Cyrille de Vignemont has become the youngest member of Jacques Chirac's government and France's most youthful civil servant ever. De Vignemont, as a special consultant to the Ministry of Civil Service and Planning, will advise Minister Hervé de Charette on the needs and hopes of French youth...