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...Mitterrand about his first visit to the U.S., when he was a young politician in 1946. This week America's doors will open wide again for France's new President as he travels to Yorktown, Va., to join President Ronald Reagan in celebrating the bicentennial of the Franco-American military victory that ended the Revolutionary War. In addition, Mitterrand will spend five hours in meetings with Reagan before continuing on to Cancun, Mexico, for a 22-nation summit meeting to discuss economic cooperation between rich and poor countries. Last week, after engineering a devaluation of the franc...
There was more than good personal chemistry behind the mutual striving for Franco-American entente. Indeed there was a broad range of foreign policy issues on which the Socialist President's views seemed more compatible with Washington's than those of his patrician predecessor. On East-West questions, for example, both Mitterrand and his Foreign Minister have emphatically denounced the Soviet menace in Afghanistan and Poland. In fact, the Socialists have made it clear to Marchais's Communists that they cannot hope to play even a token role in the government without endorsing that condemnation of Moscow's imperialism...
...Franco-U.S. Relations. The Reagan Administration, which had been building a closer relationship with Giscard over the past few months, was caught flat-footed by Mitterrand's election. Indeed, the Paris embassy had confidently predicted a Giscard victory (but not the CIA, whose analysts correctly picked Mitterrand). Briefing reporters the day after the election, an Administration official gamely stressed the "enduring quality" of Franco-American relations, but admitted to concern over the possible inclusion of Communists in the Mitterrand government...
...better positioned to complete plans to introduce a new car or Jeep model every six months from now through 1985, thereby offering customers twice the variety that the Big Three automakers have traditionally provided. For the present at least, the firm that might more accurately be called Franco-American Motors has been saved by le bailout...
None of these Franco-American producers plans to sell his California quaff in Europe. Steven Spurrier, owner of the Paris wine school L'Académie du Vin, believes that to be a wise decision. Says he: "Moēt would be crazy to import Chandon Brut into France. In my opinion it is much better than their own Moēt et Chandon. They would be competing against themselves with a better-tasting wine at a better price...