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...almost married, Bill Clinton. Campaigning in the spring of 1995, Chirac enthused about the prospect of working with his U.S. counterpart; the two men, both gregarious, backslapping extroverts, had hit it off from their first meeting in Paris a year earlier. But how, a reporter asked, would sensitive Franco-American relations fare? "They will be excellent," Chirac predicted. Pause. "And contentious...
TIME: How would you describe the state of Franco-American relations today...
With the U.S., Chirac will be a tough-minded ally. "Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent," he says. "The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable with its hegemonism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them win their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists." The sparks, Chirac predicts, will come on "trade issues-we won't give one inch on culture and agriculture...
...Gregorian chant. Though their scary Gothic ancestors patrolled the cathedrals of Europe, serving double duty as protectors from evil and divertors of rainwater, today's gargoyles are more likely to turn up as tchotchkes--pencil holders, bookends, and the like. They've also gone edible, in the form of Franco-American canned pasta (with and without meatballs...
...blast, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and Defense Minister Francois Leotard were already calling for an / ultimatum, and Washington swiftly agreed. Transatlantic telephone conferences between Presidents Clinton and Francois Mitterrand helped iron out some minor differences. By the time NATO ministers met in Brussels Wednesday, there was a joint Franco-American proposal on the table, possibly the first in the 30-odd years since Charles de Gaulle began fulminating against "les Anglo-Saxons...