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Following the missiles, fear and alarm. "The second cold war has begun," shrilled the Italian weekly Panorama. French President Fran??ois Mitterrand warned that the situation was comparable in gravity with the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 or the Berlin blockade of 1948-49. American Sovietologist Seweryn Bialer, who has just returned from Moscow, where he had extensive interviews with Soviet officials, observes that "a test is coming between the superpowers. The Soviets are frustrated, angry. They have to reassert their manhood, to regain the influence in the international arena that today only America enjoys...
...Year of the Missile is barely a month gone, yet already the sense of urgency is intense, the diplomatic activity frenzied. French President Fran??ois Mitterrand and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on missions to Bonn last week, and Vice President George Bush will arrive in the West German capital next week. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set forth her position in the House of Commons; in Rome, the Pope outlined his in an address to the Vatican diplomatic corps. With pressure building on all sides, President Reagan defended his record on arms control at an impromptu press...
...rhetoric of peace. Joseph Luns, NATO's outspoken Secretary-General, noted the ultimate irony: "There is a greater fear of the weapons NATO is to deploy than of the weapons the U.S.S.R. has already deployed." Alarmed by the antimissile movement's challenge to the Western alliance, France's President Fran??ois Mitterrand, a firm believer in U.S. defense policies, said during his visit to the U.S. last month: "As soon as possible, the U.S. should take the initiative, catch the ball while it is in the air. If it does not seize this opportunity, European countries will feel compelled...
...have been released to sponsors are likely to be found in Little Haiti, the neighborhood north of 36th Street in Miami. "The Haitians take care of each other as well as they can," says Fernand Cayard, owner of a local supermarket. "No one is sleeping on the streets." Jean Fran??ois, a 25-year-old Haitian, shares a three-bedroom wooden frame house with 19 fellow refugees. "Everyone sleeps in shifts," explains Fran??ois. "He who works gets the shift of his choice. Those who can pay help pay the rent...
From the topless beaches of the Côte d'Azur to back packing trails in the Alps, French vacationers last week were enjoying the final moments of their summer holidays. An uncommon number of them, including President Fran??ois Mitterrand, seemed to have their noses buried in a book. The tome was France's latest rage, a 565-page edition of the apocalyptic predictions of Nostradamus, the Renaissance physician and astrologer. Noted the newsweekly Le Point in a cover story on the sudden French passion for bleak prophecies: "The man of this summer is not Mitterrand, but Nostradamus...