Word: francoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly before Essex revealed his discovery, a group of French and Portuguese researchers announced a related finding. At a conference in Lisbon, Dr. Luc Montagnier of Paris' Pasteur Institute disclosed that his team too had found a missing-link virus, apparently closer to the simian virus than it is to...
Gaddafi's reputation as an international meddler was firmly established in 1977, when he intervened to support the nightmare dictatorship of Uganda's Idi Amin. He has invaded Chad twice, prompting French President Francois Mitterrand to send French troops to the landlocked African country. Libya and France signed an agreement...
Jacques Chirac was all smiles last week as he addressed a nationwide television audience from the reception chamber of Paris' grandiose, 19th century city hall. As mayor of Paris and the outspoken leader of the conservative Rally for the Republic party, Chirac only hours before had been named Premier by...
The armed forces, said Namphy, had named him, along with Colonel Williams Regala and Jacques Francois, a lawyer who had been the acting Foreign Minister, to form a new three-member ruling council. Said Namphy: "The lack of understanding of some, together with the blind ambition of others, has hampered...
The Catholic Church was busy concentrating its efforts on improving the lot of Haitians, 85% of whom are illiterate. Addressing 30,000 listeners at a Mass on March 7, Monsignor Francois Gayot, the head of the Haitian Bishops' Conference, announced a crash literacy program. Declared Gayot: "If these people could...