Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week he signed an agreement with France under which the two countries will make a "total and simultaneous" withdrawal of troops from the former French colony of Chad, beginning this week...
Under the agreement, which Morocco may have helped to broker, the French will remove some 3,000 men, 800 vehicles and 40 aircraft, which have been buttressing the government of President Hissène Habré; the Libyans will pull out their 5,000 men from northern Chad, where they have been backing the rebel forces of Habré's onetime ally and ousted predecessor, Goukouni Oueddei. Libya and France greeted with relief their anticipated departure from the costly stalemate. But the Chadians, mired in a seesaw 19-year-old civil war, were anything but jubilant. Stung...
...some economists fear it might eventually force the Federal Reserve to push up interest rates to keep growth under control. The clearest sign of U.S. economic might has been the continuing strength of the American dollar abroad. Last week it hit alltime highs against the British pound and the French franc and climbed to an 11½-year peak against the West German mark. The British pound was worth more than $2.30 in 1980 and about $1.50 a year ago, but now fetches barely $1.25. Late the week the West German Bundesbank bought several hundred million dollars' worth...
...world break-dance championship sponsored by Swatch, the Swiss watch brand, took place last week in Manhattan. The purse totaled $25,000, including $3,500 prizes for the top soloists. Best foreign team was the West Germans, who outspun the British and French crews...
...that the latest major movement of national popular culture to have international impact-like the French new wave in films or the British invasion of American rock music-is clothing from Japan. Fashion has generally been tied to society, to frivolity, to pricey artifice in the service of camp and commerce. It is a subject that seldom rates serious attention. There are not, after all, a lot of clothing designers who deserve it. But of those who do, a disproportionate number are Japanese. If someone as gifted as Issey Miyake were making movies, he would already be hailed...