Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remain faithful to its allies, with the U.S. in the front row." Hernu argues that, ironically, France's withdrawal from the com mand structure of NATO, a move that gravely strained ties with the U.S., now makes France a stronger ally. "If France were fully inside NATO, Frenchmen might go to sleep, saying to themselves, 'Oh, well, the Americans are there with their nuclear umbrella. There is no point in our making a strong effort.' It is this sense of independence that gives the French the feeling that they are not neutral...
...last May, France's Socialist President has launched proposals to increase public benefits, raise taxes on the rich, return power to local governments, abolish the death penalty and slow down the West's most advanced nuclear energy program. Last week, fulfilling a pledge so controversial that many Frenchmen thought Mitterrand might actually back off, his ministers approved the most sweeping takeover of private industry seen in Europe since the immediate postwar years...
When McDonald's golden arches appeared in Paris nine years ago, the fast-food chain seemed to acquire a new international cachet. What better testimony to its cuisine than crowds of finicky Frenchmen munching Big Macs along the Champs Elysees...
...simply doesn't know how to nationalize. He's made this campaign pledge and now he's got to fulfill it. But I'm not sure his heart's in it." Other observers, however, are convinced that the full Socialist program?including nationalizations?will be carried out. "Many Frenchmen doubt Mitterrand's socialism and think that since he no longer needs the Communists, he'll behave as a moderate and govern at the center-left," says Raymond Aron. "I think these skeptics are wrong and insult the President." The President himself supported that view last week, vowing publicly to "fulfill...
...graduates of a small number of closely knit, government-linked grandes écoles (great schools), which also provide manpower for the national political parties, be they of the left, right or center. The bureaucratic system and the elite institutions that feed it are geared to political neutrality. Frenchmen both inside and outside the new Socialist government are now counting on that tradition to provide threads of continuity and stability at a time of political transition...