Word: francoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The new spring and summer collection he unveiled last week has many traditional Lacroix touches, if such a short career can have traditions. There are whopping cabbage roses, short lengths and, in the lace-printed fichus, references to Arles, in Lacroix's native Provence. Some expectable hoots were present: bamboo...
Last week, after a decade of wrangling, a U.S. district judge in Chicago ordered Amoco to pay $85.2 million in damages and interest, the largest penalty ever assessed in an environmental case. Amoco called the sum excessive, and France's President Francois Mitterrand said the damages awarded "scarcely conform to...
Ronald Reagan was not the only Western leader facing Iran arms-sales allegations last week. In Paris, the conservative daily Le Figaro published a U.S. Defense Department report alleging that President Francois Mitterrand had been informed of French arms sales to Tehran in 1984 and had done nothing to stop...
French voters were savoring a U.S.-style scandal last week: allegations of secret arms sales to Iran, cover-ups and illegal use of misbegotten funds. According to a government report leaked to the daily Le Figaro, President Francois Mitterrand and former Defense Minister Charles Hernu, both Socialists, were aware of...
French President Francois Mitterrand, speaking at a financial forum Thursday, complained about a "world that constantly moves the carpet under your feet, pulling it out and threatening to trip you up." The market bust, he said, "is the disorder of a non-system. There is no system. It has been...