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...carpet, to be greeted by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. It was not a night for ceremony. The Reagans sped off to the residence of U.S. Ambassador Evan Galbraith to recuperate from jet lag and prepare for the first serious task: cementing Reagan's friendship with French President François Mitterrand, his host at the Versailles summit...
...tended to watch the spectacle in the way that an agnostic beholds a believer who is suffering a bout of spiritual anguish; the ordeal seems impressive, perhaps, but unnecessary, odd and even self-indulgent. "The French never understood why the Americans got so upset over Watergate,' French Historian François Furet said last week. "The French in particular and Europeans in general do not have a moral conception of politics." An English political columnist ruminating on Watergate sounds as if he were discussing an odd tribal custom: "That's true. The Americans take democracy very seriously " Many...
...have backed Britain with economic and military sanctions against Argentina. The West Germans, who trade heavily with South America, have even dispatched a Cabinet minister on a troubleshooting tour of Latin America to explain Bonn's support of Britain. A French diplomat noted that the government of President François Mitterrand "has made one of its central foreign policy goals that of improving North-South relations. To the extent that the Falklands retard that, everyone loses...
...firm. Even after an upbeat May, auto sales for the year so far are 36% less than during the same months in 1978. The automakers continue to confront the problems that first triggered their prolonged slump: high interest rates, a weak economy and fierce competition from Japanese imports. Says Fran McCormack, general manager of Clayton Motors Dodge in East Hartford, Conn.: "There are obviously a lot of people who need to replace their cars who are still waiting for interest rates to come down. People live and breathe those rates...
Whenever French Sociologist François de Singly stopped in his wife's office in the early evening, the pattern was almost always the same: the married men and single women were working overtime, and nearly all of the single men and married women had gone home. "It was striking," says the sociologist, who has specialized in family studies and taught for twelve years at the University of Nantes. "It was married men and single women working the longer hours...