Word: gaston
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Reaction to the Liberal Democratic landslide was enthusiastic in the West. "A personal victory for Nakasone as well as for his policies," said Gaston Sigur, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. "As a result, Japan can take a more responsible role in the world economic community, commensurate with her strength." The Prime Minister's landslide, said the London Times, was a "sign that Japan is becoming both more outgoing and more accessible." Nakasone, commented the conservative West German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "can be sure that the victory of his party and his personal success...
That line of argument came most strongly last week from National Security Adviser John Poindexter and his staff expert on Asian affairs, Gaston Sigur. Among others who reportedly felt the same way was White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, an ex-Marine, who said on This Week with David Brinkley last ; month that the U.S. would condemn any electoral fraud, but added that "if it's a duly elected government, so certified, you'd have to do business with...
...lines of a new party policy and hammer out a strategy for the election campaign. Their real mission: to resolve the party's identity crisis and find ways to restore its lost respect. "Toulouse is not the congress of disillusion and defeat, as they would have us believe," insisted Gaston Defferre, one-time presidential candidate, former Interior Minister and now Mitterrand's Minister for Planning. "It is the congress of counterattack...
...White House is less sanguine about its relations with Japan. In order to stress the importance of the trade issues, the President last week sent a special envoy, Gaston Sigur, a Japanese specialist on the National Security staff, to Tokyo with a letter for Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. The Prime Minister meanwhile said that a new package of measures designed to make it easier to export to Japan will be announced next week...
...five-course meal featuring sweetbreads and | truffles, lobster, frogs' legs and lamb prepared by some of the top chefs of France in honor of Food Critic and Chef Pierre Franey, 64. Proving that too many cooks can spoil the guests, Gastronomic Masters Paul Bocuse, 59, Alain Chapel, 47, Gaston Leniotre, 64, Jacques Maximin, 36, and Roger Verge, 53, raised a deliciously rich total of $250,000. Says Bocuse: "We all put our hearts into this meal." And hang the cholesterol...