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Given last week's vicious attack and the recent increase in terrorist incidents, the Mitterrand government has begun to reconsider its lenient policies. Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior, has called for a redefinition of the right to political asylum, and the French Cabinet is scheduled to produce a report this week on improving internal security. It will not appear a moment too soon for Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Says he: "Paris has become a hunting ground...
France's inability to protect the Turkish diplomatic community from terrorist attack has outraged the Ankara government. Turkish-French relations were further strained last April by a speech that French Interior Minister Gaston Defferre gave at a ceremony in Marseilles honoring the Armenians who died in 1915. Said Defferre: "The French government recognizes the genocide of which the Armenian people have been victim." The Turkish Foreign Minister protested that Defferre was "contributing to an atmosphere that encourages Armenian violence...
...sort of political brawl that leaves the opposition smiling. In one corner was liberal Justice Minister Robert Badinter, who had successfully promoted repeal of the death penalty in France last year. In the other was his fellow Socialist, longtime Marseille Mayor Gaston Defferre, who as Interior Minister is the country's top cop. Badinter was urging the National Assembly to abolish a much-hated law, inherited from the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted...
BORN. To Jaclyn Smith, 35, prettiest of Charlie's Angels, and Tony Richmond, 39, cinematographer: a son, their first child (her first, his fourth); in Los Angeles. Name: Gaston Anthony. Weight...
Most opposition members liked neither the manner in which Interior Minister Gaston Deferre rammed the bill through nor its contents. Warned Conservative Charles Millon: "The disorganization that it will provoke augurs a renaissance of local feudalism...