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...Mitterrand's new Socialist government would track down and extradite ETA terrorists taking refuge on French soil. Previous French governments were reluctant to cooperate, fearing that some of the people requested by the Spanish might be political dissidents, not terrorists. Last week French officials continued to be wary. Gaston Defferre, the Interior Minister, has gone so far as to declare that the war against the ETA in Spain is "political." Despite continuing pressure from Madrid, the French have still not agreed to the extradition proposal...
DIED. Fernand Spaak, 57, Belgian diplomat who headed the European Community Commission's delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community...
...fussy about politicians not showing up for work. Huey Long missed U.S. Senate sessions for almost a year because he was home serving simultaneously as Governor. Earl Long took leaves as Governor when his wife had him committed to mental institutions. But few public servants can match State Senator Gaston Gerald, who kept drawing salary and expenses while in federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. He also put a former fellow inmate on the senate payroll, with no specified duties, at a salary of $919 a month...
...hierarchy of the Socialist Party. The new Foreign Minister will be Claude Cheysson, 61, the architect of the European Community's liberal Third World trade policy. Banker Jacques Delors, 55, once a key adviser to former Gaullist Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, will be Minister of Economy and Finance. Gaston Deferre, 70, the mayor of Marseille, will be the nation's top policeman in his capacity as Minister of the Interior. Mitterrand's rival for the presidential nomination last year, Michel Rocard, 50, will be Minister for Planning and Regional Development...
...Socialist presidential nomination, then withdrew when Mitterrand said that he would run. Now more moderate in his economic views (he has doubts about the benefits of nationalization), Rocard was the top choice for Premier, whether Mitterrand or Giscard won, in a poll conducted by L 'Express. Premier Gaston Defferre, 70, the party's most durable figure, was a presidential candidate in 1969, when the Socialists took only 5% of the vote. For 28 years the mayor of Marseille, France's toughest town, he has administrative experience that should be invaluable, and is a possible choice...