Word: francoise
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The main qualification of Ambassador to France Evan Galbraith "is that he speaks French and is a friend of Giscard d'Estaing, who is out of power and is considered the archenemy of [Francois Mitter rand] the man who is running the country." Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb is...
International controversy tends to imbue not just flowers but everything about Jerusalem with a nervous symbolism. Particularly state visitors. Thus French President Francois Mitterrand ceremonially carried a beribboned sheaf of flowers to the eternal flame at the Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem last month, but he politely refused to go...
In the small town of Chamalières, France, the expensively tailored resident quietly slipped into city hall to register his candidacy for the job of local conseiller général (commissioner). The post is minor, but the candidate, former French President Valéry Giscard d'...
You could almost hear the sigh of relief here," said a top executive of France's Rhone-Poulenc chemical and fiber conglomerate. Applauded the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro: "It seems that realism has finally overcome ideology." Even Pierre Charpy, a spokesman for the opposition Rally for the Republic...
Tsongas joined a recent chorus of voices--including those of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Francois Mitterrand--in stating that loose talk from U.S. government officials about the "winnability" and "containability" of nuclear war has severely limited the credibility of the Administration among Europeans.