Word: iles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Authorities said the 44-year-old former helicopter mechanic also reported on movements at the naval base at Ile Longue, near Brest, home of France's nuclear missile carrying submarines...
...first clear sign of Mitterrand's intentions on defense policy came last July, only two months after his inauguration, when he appeared at the Brittany naval base of Ile-Longue to announce plans to build a seventh nuclear submarine by 1990. The addition will enable the French navy's Strategic Ocean Force to keep three subs, each equipped with 16 multiple-warhead M-4 missiles, on high seas patrol at all times...
...summit's site in the historic center of Venice. The statesmen were as enchanted with the beguiling city as countless ordinary tourists before them. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went for a brisk ride up the Grand Canal in his motor launch, the Ile de France. Thatcher, still clad in a flowing evening gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt the successive summits, the Italian government marshaled an imposing display of security forces, including 8,000 reinforcements...