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...this week to hear the charges against him. MACEDONIA Back from the Brink Mediators pulled Macedonia back from civil war after the evacuation of armed ethnic Albanian rebels from a village near the capital sparked violent Macedonian Slav protests. Amid a flurry of diplomatic activity - a new E.U. envoy, François Léotard, arrived in Skopje - NATO approved a conditional plan to deploy 3,000 troops and Macedonia's Interior Ministry said it would demobilize some police reservists. Earlier in the week, U.S. President Bush signed an order barring Americans from financing the rebels, a move NATO chief...
...allegations. Dumas, sentenced last month to six months in jail on corruption charges, said Employment Minister Elisabeth Guigou and Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine knew about illicit payments to secure the purchase of a German oil refinery for Elf. Guigou and Védrine, former presidential advisers to François Mitterrand, denied the allegations...
French film director François Truffaut once said that English filmmaking was a contradiction in terms. The Brits have been saying the same thing about French pop music for decades. For the discerning Anglo-Saxon music lover, the country that gave the world Jean-Michel Jarre's po-faced pomposity and the embarrassing histrionics of paunchy, ageing rocker Johnny Hallyday had an awful lot to answer...
...Still, given the beneficial effects of decentralization, Jospin and other candidates preparing to challenge President Jacques Chirac in next spring's elections now champion acceleration. François Bayrou, president of the centrist Union of French Democracy Party, argues that the Corsican bill will further foster devolution. "Decisions must be taken locally, close to citizens," says Bayrou, "and not just in their name from Paris...
...Bush was visiting the Everglades to name a new National Park Service director, Fran Mainella, the longtime head of Florida?s parks, and to tout his commitment to protecting what he called "a slice of heaven." He spoke to about 100 park employees, giving details of his 2002 budget, which includes $219 million for Everglades restoration - $58 million more than this year, according to the White House...