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Behind a bulletproof plastic shield, like travelers in a time machine, a jubilant Ronald Reagan and his guest, French President François Mitterrand, watched the Bicentennial celebration of a transatlantic partnership that brought independence to the 13 colonies. "The surrender at Yorktown," Reagan told the crowd of 60,000 (one of whom presented him with a reproduction of a Revolutionary sword), "was a victory for the right of self-determination. It was and is the affirmation that freedom will eventually triumph over tyranny." His Socialist French counterpart, however, had a more pointedly contemporary interpretation of the celebration. Said Mitterrand...
...festivities, all stressing the longevity of Franco-American friendship, buffered any ideological friction created by the Presidents' disparate history lessons with friendly toasts and good cheer. Mitterrand and his wife Danielle were hosts at a Sunday lunch aboard the moored French frigate De Grasse (named for Admiral François de Grasse, whose naval blockade sealed the English defeat at Yorktown). There, after lobster and lamb, Mitterrand told Reagan that he relished "the humor of your conversation" and toasted "the generous smile of Mrs. Reagan." A few hours later the Presidents, their wives and 92 others arrived, amid fife...
...Communist daily L'Humanité took the opportunity to attack Reagan and to attract attention to the peace march held in Paris last Sunday. Beneath a front-page photograph of Reagan before a mushroom cloud, the paper ran the giant headline: NO EUROSHIMA! But the government of President François Mitterrand supported its American ally...
...Western Europe. Papandreou's victory was immediately compared with that of his fellow socialist, François Mitterrand, who was elected President of France five months ago after 23 years of conservative rule. Many French analysts sympathetic to Mitterrand saw the Greek socialists' victory as an affirmation that a fragile democracy had come of age. Pronounced the leftist daily Le Monde: "It is part of a democratic switch from one political party to another that has been all but absent in modern Greek politics...
...WOMAN NEXT DOOR Directed by François Truffaut Screenplay by François Truffaut, Suzanne Schiffman and Jean Aurel