Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PARIS--A DC-10 airliner bound from the Congo to Paris with 170 people aboard disappeared on Tuesday, probably over the West African country of Niger, the French airline UTA said...
...French news agency Agence France-Presse, quoting unidentified sources, said Chadian Planning Minister Mahamat Soumahila was also aboard, bound for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Washington...
...room apartment near the Gare de Lyons. They have one married daughter Martine; their only son Jean Paul died of cancer several years ago. Delors's passions other than work are jazz, movies, soccer and the annual Tour de France, which he has twice observed as a commentator on French television...
...consider Paris, which will soon be several driving hours closer to London as work on a tunnel under the English Channel forges ahead. The French capital is fast becoming a major diplomatic crossroads, a host to economic summits, peace negotiations on Cambodia and talks to limit the spread of chemical weapons. In Spain, which will be host to both the Summer Olympics and World's Fair in 1992, a vibrant mood of enterprise and enthusiasm mirrors the distant days of another century, when Spanish ships braved the unknown to discover new lands and Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. Even Italy...
...Hungary. At the conventional-arms talks in Vienna, the U.S., NATO's erstwhile champion, now sits alongside other alliance members at the negotiating table. In the Middle East, France seems to be bidding to take a lead role, seeking to negotiate a cease-fire in Lebanon while a French aircraft carrier cruises offshore...