Word: decin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That political "exposé" was the work of Nice's neo-Gaullist mayor, Jacques Médecin, who, like the rest of France's leading politicians, has been furiously campaigning for the municipal elections that will be held on March 6 and 13. The vote is a local affair to choose councilmen and mayors for the country's 36,400 municipalities, but it has assumed the dimensions of a national referendum on President François Mitterrand's 21-month-old Socialist experiment. The Socialists and their Communist allies in the government are expected to lose...
Greene became increasingly frustrated when Nice police showed little interest in following up the information that he gave authorities. Insisted former Police Superintendent François Guillon: "Big crime in Nice is practically nonexistent." Said Nice Mayor Jacques Médecin, who had encouraged the expansion of gambling in his city: "Greene is spitting in the soup to make publicity for his book...
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