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González's tone of reasonableness was reflected in the Socialist electoral platform. Its main focus is a plan to fight unemployment by creating 200,000 jobs annually over the next four years. Unlike France's Socialist President François Mitterrand, González does not seek to make jobs through sweeping nationalizations. Indeed, the only segment of the economy proposed for state takeover is the electrical grid. Instead, the party calls for a tightly controlled state credit program to support small and medium-size business investment in depressed areas. In foreign policy, the P.S.O.E. platform...
Gemayel emphasized in Washington, as well as during his subsequent talks in Paris and Rome, that the extra peace-keeping forces would be needed until the Lebanese army has been significantly strengthened. In Paris, President François Mitterrand promised to increase the number of French troops in Lebanon. Said an Elysée spokesman...
...National Assembly to approve West German rearmament. Often politically unpopular because of his abrasive righteousness, Mendès France earned numerous enemies (including Charles de Gaulle) and was sometimes ridiculed, notably for his ill-starred recommendation that the bibulous French switch from wine to milk. But said Disciple François Mitterrand at his 1981 inauguration as President: "It is thanks to you that this is possible...
García Márquez has been a vocal irritant to rightist regimes from South Africa to Salvador, counts Socialist French President François Mitterrand as a personal friend, and once donated the $22,000 proceeds of a 1972 literary prize to a small left-wing group in Venezuela. But the author refuses to be categorized. "I have never belonged to a Communist Party," he says, "and my only weapon is my typewriter." That weapon has proved to be a formidable capitalist tool. Solitude alone has 10 million copies in print in 32 languages, and has opened publishers...
...Bonn Chancellery from Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, the Christian Democratic leader had sworn in a new 17-member Cabinet, chaired his first Cabinet meeting, held a press conference and jetted off to Paris for a hastily arranged get-acquainted dinner with his most important Western European partner, French President François Mitterrand. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, hopped another jetliner for New York City, where he sat down for preliminary talks with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations. The aim of all of this brisk activity...