Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jean-Marie Le Pen laughing? Because the truculent, acid-tongued far-right leader sees himself as the real winner of France's parliamentary elections. The snap vote, called by Gaullist President Jacques Chirac in a disastrous blunder, not only ousted a center-right majority that Le Pen reviles, it also vastly increased the clout of Le Pen's anti-immigrant National Front, which polled nearly 15% in the first round of voting and played a decisive role in the June 1 runoff. Though only one party member was elected, because of the mechanics of France's majority voting system...
DIED. JACQUES FOCCART, 83, leading architect of French policy in Africa and adviser to four French Presidents, including Charles de Gaulle; in Paris. An important figure in the Gaullist movement, he operated in clandestine circles to maintain France's power in its former African colonies...
...first six months following Chirac's election were a lovefest. When France's leader touched off a worldwide furor with his decision to resume nuclear testing, Clinton refused to make an issue of it. The two Presidents cooperated to break the military and diplomatic logjam in Bosnia. Then the Gaullist Chirac gave NATO a welcome surprise by declaring he would bring France back into the military structures from which his political idol, Charles de Gaulle, had so haughtily withdrawn in 1966. But then the second part of Chirac's prediction kicked...
...network of ex-prisoners in 1943. After the liberation, he was elected to the National Assembly, and between 1947 and 1957 he held 11 Cabinet positions. But with Charles de Gaulle's ascension to the leadership of France, Mitterrand began a quarter-century in the opposition. Flanked by the Gaullists and the Communists, he forged the French Socialist Party from the motley fragments of the non-Communist left. In 1981 he finally captured the presidency with the promise of an economic renaissance for the recession-bound country. In power for the first time since 1936, the Socialists launched a veritable...
Chirac also feels comfortable on both sides of the Atlantic, having spent time in the States as a student and a tourist. "He appreciates our culture, and one of his very close friends is Gregory Peck," says Sancton. "While his politics are decidedly Gaullist, he is the most American of all French Presidents in terms of style. Like Bill Clinton, he's down-to-earth, convivial--and he loves fast food...