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...seemed at first to be just another routine visit to the Elysée Palace. But within 30 minutes of Premier Pierre Mauroy's arrival for his weekly meeting with President François Mitterrand, the Elysée's chief of staff emerged onto the steps of the stately, 18th century presidential palace in the center of Paris with a statement that sent shock waves across the country. "Premier Pierre Mauroy has presented his government's resignation," the official noted gravely. "The President has accepted [and] named Mr. Laurent Fabius as Premier." Fabius, formerly Mitterrand...
...Bernard Pons, secretary-general of the neo-Gaullist party: "The Communists have just said today, down to the last comma, what we have been repeating for three years: the government's economic and industrial policy is a failure." But in a backhanded compliment to Fabius, Republican Party Leader François Leotard noted that Mitterrand had chosen "one of the best. We must not underestimate our adversary...
French Suite. When French President François Mitterrand visited San Francisco in March, he chose to stay in the $1,500-a-day presidential suite of the Hotel Meridien because it is owned by a French consortium. Walter Mondale had other reasons for picking the same digs as his headquarters during the Democratic Convention, starting with its location one block from Moscone Center. By contrast, the other two Democratic presidential candidates will be staying a traffic-clogged half-mile away on Union Square - Gary Hart at the venerable Westin St. Francis and Jesse Jackson at the high-rise Hyatt...
...Communist Party. On one side stand the so-called traditionalists, among them durable Party Chief Georges Marchais, 64, who favor close ties to Moscow and oppose party reforms. On the other are the so-called modernists, including Marcel Rigout, 56, one of four Communist ministers in President François Mitterrand's Cabinet, who want to loosen ties with the Kremlin and open the party to greater internal democracy...
...Jose's Plate-one taco, one cheese enchilada, one beef-bean burrito, Mexican rice, frijoles, salad, $15.75.) But thriving exacts some cost in the Arctic Circle. "It's tough up here," says Fran, who lived in a garage on a dirt floor in 1977-she, two dachshunds and an electric heater. The inside temperature was 31°F below zero. She ran an outfit called Speedy Secretary then, but an IBM salesman blew through town, sold everybody a copier and put her out of business. "You can't run across the street to the hardware store...