Word: fran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welcomed the latest Soviet move as offering promise for a U.S.-Soviet missile agreement this year. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym described Andropov's remarks as "a step in the right direction. It is a very modest move; they are still taking a very hard line." French President François Mitterrand reaffirmed his nation's determination to be excluded from the Geneva talks. Said he: "This Soviet demand is very old. I will remain deaf." The Paris daily Le Monde headlined the Andropov announcement with a question: CONCESSION OR PROPAGANDA? The paper's assessment: probably propaganda...
Cleverly maneuvering her way in front of Wildcat goalie Jane Billeter, DenHartog snagged four of those first six goals in the defensive struggle. "Fran really had a great game," Kleinfelder said afterward. "She kept us in the game...
...corollary to the public relations problem, there were wistful calls for what François-Poncet called "inspired leadership": opinion polls on both sides of the Atlantic show public support that could be mobilized for the Atlantic Alliance. As the alliance's leader, it was widely agreed, the U.S. must be more sensitive to the gusts of anxiety that shake Western Europe, and the Reagan Administration must moderate its language on East-West issues. At one point during the conference, Senator Tsongas told Richard Burt, "If you assume that the next battlefield is the European heart and mind...
...consists of five nuclear-powered submarines, each equipped with 16 single-warhead missiles, and 18 land-based missiles. Their range: no more than 1,800 miles, barely enough to reach Moscow. Britain relies on four nuclear submarines, each armed with 16 Polaris missiles. Says former French Ambassador to NATO François de Rose: "The number we have now is immaterial compared with the 10,000 warheads the Soviet Union and the U.S. have." Moreover, plans to modernize the British and French systems will only marginally overcome their technological inferiority to the Soviet Union's mobile, longer-range...
...both the British and French governments have adamantly refused to let their missiles be part of U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations. "It would be a disaster," says Jacques Huntzinger, international-affairs adviser to French President François Mitterrand. "It would result in the dominance of SS-20s over Europe." For the foreseeable future, it will be up to the U.S. to keep the nuclear weapons of its European allies off the bargaining table in Geneva...