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...conference's formal sessions without notes or texts. His informality was ice breaking. Britain's starchy Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was clearly pleased rather than affronted by his familiarity when Reagan at one point leaned toward her and said, "Maggie, I love you." When French President François Mitterrand greeted him with a cheery "Hello," the President answered: "Thanks for saying hello in my language. Let me say 'Bonjour.' " He then went on to apologize for his largely forgotten high school French...
...reason for amiability is that elections and other political changes have broken up the old gang that argued so vociferously at previous economic summits. Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain are the only veterans of these gatherings. President François Mitterrand of France and Prime Ministers Zenko Suzuki of Japan and Giovanni Spadolini of Italy are as new to summitry as Reagan. Suzuki is something of an odd man out; unlike the others, he speaks not a word of English. Spadolini was confirmed as head of Italy's 41st postwar government...
...those words, spoken from the gilded rostrum of France's National Assembly last week, Socialist Premier Pierre Mauroy unveiled his government's program for transforming the country's social and economic landscape. The only real surprise was Mauroy's determination, at the behest of President François Mitterrand, to act quickly on the basic planks of the Socialists' electoral platform: nationalization of banks and a number of industries, decentralization of the nation's administrative machinery, and reform of the tax and judiciary systems...
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...parties are resolved to promote the new policies that the French people chose when they elected François Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic. They will do so in the National Assembly within the newly constituted majority. They will do so in the government with an unfailing solidarity...