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...other NATO capitals, reaction centered on the lack of prior U.S. consultation. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, also the leader of a Commonwealth nation, said that he was "astonished" by the U.S. reticence. The government of French President François Mitterrand termed the U.S. invasion "a surprising action in relation to international law," and said that "the people of Grenada must recover without delay the right to determine their destiny." The government of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl issued an unusually blunt statement declaring that "if we had been consulted we would have advised against it." In Italy, Socialist...
Debreu, who will pocket $192,000 with his prize, first learned of the award in a 3:45 a.m. telephone call from a New York radio news reporter. An ensuing flurry of calls from friends, colleagues and other journalists kept Debreu and his wife Françoise from any thought of returning to sleep. Hours later, the former French army officer was posing for pictures and answering questions while padding about his living room in a red silk robe and navy-blue pajamas. By the following night, however, Debreu had learned his lesson. Asked whether he had managed to sleep...
...coalition of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is uneasily united in its commitment to the MNF, but the country's large Communist Party has begun a major campaign to bring the troops home. In France, the conservative opposition demanded a hit-back-or-get-out policy before Socialist President François Mitterrand last week ordered retaliation against attacks on the French troops. In Britain, the opposition Labor Party is grumbling that the MNF should be used strictly for peace keeping rather than to keep Gemayel in power, although the angriest words on the subject have come from a nationalistic...
...airliner tragedy is one of the thorniest problems yet faced by the pro-Moscow French Communists in their uneasy 28-month alliance with the Socialist-dominated government of President FrançMitterrand -and one that has again raised speculation that the Communists ultimately will leave or be invited out of the government. In past months the party has disagreed with its coalition partner on a variety of issues, from the government's strong support for NATO's plan to deploy intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe to French intervention in Chad. The attacks, however, tended to become muted...
Such uncertainty leads to eruptions of inappropriate behavior. In Feathers, a man named Jack and his wife Fran are invited to dinner at the home of one of Jack's coworkers. They arrive and find a peacock strutting about the front yard, a wife happily domesticated in the kitchen and their host offering them drinks in a room where a TV set is carrying a stock-car race. All of this is too much for Fran, who did not want to come in the first place. She eyes the screen: "Maybe one of those damn cars will explode right...