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...West European support for NATO's missile-basing scheme on the Continent. As his two-week European tour drew to a close, Shultz did his best to minimize the importance of a possible shift in the Soviet position. He said in Paris after a meeting with President François Mitterrand that even if the Soviets made a proposal along the lines now hinted at, it would not be "a very interesting proposition." During an impromptu news conference, President Reagan noted that the ideas floated by the Soviets were not "adequate" and would "leave us at a considerable disadvantage...
...only an hour before Reagan was to go on the air, the French were still recalcitrant. According to U.S. officials, Reagan attempted to place a call to French President François Mitterrand, but Mitterrand refused to come to the phone. Instead, French Presidential Counsellor Jacques Attali told a senior White House official that France not only objected to publication but had "substantive" problems with the accord, which Americans said had not been voiced before (the French insisted that they had). Feeling doublecrossed, Reagan went ahead with his speech anyway, incensing the French, who immediately disavowed any accord. That night...
...economic hard times, people don't know how to provide a channel that will affect others directly-in a more social change kind of way." Community Works President Fran Froelich said yesterday...
...liked politician, now the Prime Minister-elect, is universally called by his first name. It thunders from the throats of thousands of supporters at campaign rallies, and it is even heard on the tongues of such European Socialist leaders as West Germany's Willy Brandt and French President François Mitterrand. "Everybody calls me Felipe. Everywhere," acknowledges Felipe González, 40, the handsome, confident leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (P.S.O.E.), flashing his famous smile...
...year alone, in West Germany, The Netherlands and Denmark. Rather, the election of the first Socialist Prime Minister in Spain since 1936 appeared to be part of a trend confined to Southern Europe, where voters have grown disillusioned with decades of ineffective center-right governments. France's President François Mitterrand and Greece's Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou swept to power last year on a wave of popular enthusiasm for promises of change, and Felipe González has now joined that socialist surge. Even in Italy, where centrist Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini still leads a shaky...