Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...setting off for Washington. He unexpectedly accepted an invitation to drop in on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher en route to the U.S.; they will confer for four hours in London next Monday. Soviet diplomats hinted that their boss may be preparing to demand that the independent British and French nuclear forces be reduced as part of a START deal. Arms Negotiator Victor Karpov remarked that if a START agreement with the U.S. is reached, "we would expect the British to make an offer." If that is in fact Gorbachev's game, he will get a loud no from London...
...more than twelve hours, the jumbo jet was missing, eluding a massive air and sea search by French, U.S. and South African authorities. When an SAA rescue plane finally located the wreckage about 175 miles northeast of Mauritius late last week, there was no sign that any of the 140 passengers and 19 crew members had survived. Should none be found, the crash would be the worst ever for state...
Professor of French Literature Barbara Johnsonsaid that while she found the discoveriesdisturbing, she did not hold de Man's youthfulwritings against...
Ronald Reagan was not the only Western leader facing Iran arms-sales allegations last week. In Paris, the conservative daily Le Figaro published a U.S. Defense Department report alleging that President Francois Mitterrand had been informed of French arms sales to Tehran in 1984 and had done nothing to stop them. The report also claimed that the President's Socialist Party may have received as much as $500,000 in kickbacks on the sales, which allegedly involved 500,000 artillery shells worth $120 million...
Mitterrand acknowledged that he had heard "rumors" of arms shipments to Iran by Luchaire, a French munitions firm. Pointing out that he had banned such sales when he took office in 1981, Mitterrand said he ordered an investigation by intelligence and defense officials. Since he heard nothing further about the problem, he said, he assumed that the sales had ended. As for the charge that the Socialists had benefited from the deal, Mitterrand said he would put his "hand in the fire" to deny...