Word: francoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By the late 1970s, however, all the varied roads to socialism were converging on dead ends. "Most governments were seeking to reduce the public, and expand the market, sectors of their economies," writes Historian Paul Johnson in his chronicle, Modern Times. The retreat was foretold by a swing in intellectual...
France is loosening its system of dirigisme, or state direction of business, which goes back to the 17th century and Jean Baptiste Colbert, the minister to Louis XIV. Socialist President Francois Mitterrand nationalized 39 banks and five major industries soon after taking office in 1981. He changed course later, but...
Fresh from a Liberty Weekend meeting with Ronald Reagan, French President Francois Mitterrand flew to Moscow for a 3 1/2-day session with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. While disavowing any formal role as diplomatic messenger, Mitterrand clearly planned to try to advance the prospect of a superpower summit later this year...
She spent the final days before her return calling on leaders in London and Paris. "If my husband didn't remain in Gorky," she said after meeting French President Francois Mitterrand, "I would never return there." Her jitters were evidenced by a request that two U.S. Congressmen accompany her back...
More than ever, the market economy has been in vogue since President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists narrowly lost the national elections last March. Under a complex power-sharing arrangement that the French refer to as cohabitation, Mitterrand has taken the lead in foreign policy while the newly appointed conservative Premier...