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DIED. FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, 79, former President of France; of cancer; in Paris. He was a man of frustrating arrogance, a man of contradictory impulses--but above all, as even his opponents acknowledged, Mitterrand was a man of France. The son of a railroad employee turned vinegar producer, Mitterrand went to Paris to study law in 1934. Drafted at the outbreak of World War II, he was imprisoned by the Germans in 1940. He escaped, co-founding a Resistance group with a network of ex-prisoners in 1943. After the liberation, he was elected to the National Assembly, and between...
PARIS: Former French President Francois Mitterand succumbed to prostate cancer Monday. He served longer (14 years) as France's president than anyone since Napoleon III, leaving behind "a mixed legacy that is bound to fascinate and confound historians for decades to come," says Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. Mitterand became president in 1981 as a socialist, but two years after sweeping nationalizations and other leftist policies had created runaway inflation, a spiraling trade deficit and a sagging franc, he abruptly changed course and put the country on a solidly capitalistic course. For that, critics called him a cynical, power-thirsty...
...Angeles Times last summer that Quebeckers would be trapped like "lobsters in a pot" once they voted "Yes" to his packed question, further throwing into doubt his sincerity in negotiating with the rest of Canada. I think he just wanted to mint his face on a new Quebec-franc coin. He'd have been the founder of a new nation, after...