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Enthusiastic about sophomore goalkeeper Fran O'Donoghue, Corrigan said she "looks 100 per cent better" after a summer at field hockey development camp. Also sophomore Carol Trask, who tied for the honor of leading scorer on the team last year, will be back...
...reaction was unfavorable to the Administration's decision. France, which is not a member of the NATO military organization and is developing its own neutron warhead, gave what amounted to a qualified endorsement of the weapon. Said Charles Hernu, the Defense Minister in the new Socialist government of François Mitterrand: "The neutron bomb must not obscure the reality of the threats posed by the [Soviet] Euromissiles." In West Germany, Franz Josef Strauss, who was the conservative Christian Democratic opponent to Schmidt in last year's election, said that the "dismal situation of defense budgets" in NATO...
Tumultuous mobs surged around the red brick walls of the French embassy in Tehran, demanding "death" for President François Mitterrand. Diplomats and businessmen and their families tried to get out, but as the first contingent of 61 arrived at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport at 5:30 a.m. one day last week, a gang of Iranian militants blocked their way. Revolutionary authorities offered assurances that the evacuees would be released this week. But Ayatullah Ali Meshkini, one of his country's leading mullahs, warned that the incident could result in the French embassy being "taken over...
...association in the small Vendee city of Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with the most centralized government. Last week, fulfilling a campaign promise, President François Mitterrand's Socialist parliamentary majority approved the first half of a package that will return to local governments powers that, in some cases, they have not enjoyed since the 12th century...
...Spanish government also hoped that President François Mitterrand's new Socialist government would track down and extradite ETA terrorists taking refuge on French soil. Previous French governments were reluctant to cooperate, fearing that some of the people requested by the Spanish might be political dissidents, not terrorists. Last week French officials continued to be wary. Gaston Defferre, the Interior Minister, has gone so far as to declare that the war against the ETA in Spain is "political." Despite continuing pressure from Madrid, the French have still not agreed to the extradition proposal...