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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Affair | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Gagging Greene | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

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