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The French go even further than the E.C. on the question of linkage. They would flatly promise Saddam a Middle East conference in exchange for Baghdad's pledge to give up Kuwait. Paris argues that since it has long sought such a parley, it is actually giving Saddam nothing new...
If quantity were any substitute for quality, the gulf crisis might have already been resolved by diplomatic means. Last week brought a flurry of summits, tete-a-tetes, initiatives and trial balloons, all aimed at averting a war over Kuwait that otherwise looked imminent. The European Community met in Luxembourg...
Leading the resistance to the American invasion has been France and its Culture Minister, Jack Lang, a longtime Yankee basher who has proclaimed, "Our destiny is not to become the vassals of an immense empire of profit." Spurred by Lang, who has gone so far as to appoint a rock...
Mikhail Gorbachev deserves a hand for being able to laugh at his troubles, but he may want to consider clearing his jokes with other targets of his humor, especially if one of them is the President of France. As the Soviet leader left a session of the Russian parliament last...
Officially, France remains on the anti-Saddam bandwagon. During the CSCE summit in Paris two weeks ago, President Francois Mitterrand repeatedly told Bush that "we're not going to leave you alone in the desert." The public is more diffident: in a poll published by Le Figaro last week, only...