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France is loosening its system of dirigisme, or state direction of business, which goes back to the 17th century and Jean Baptiste Colbert, the minister to Louis XIV. Socialist President Francois Mitterrand nationalized 39 banks and five major industries soon after taking office in 1981. He changed course later, but...
Wolper's long career has produced more than 500 films and documentaries as varied as The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau and If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. His television triumphs include Roots and The Thorn Birds. The opening and closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics were his...
More than ever, the market economy has been in vogue since President Francois Mitterrand's Socialists narrowly lost the national elections last March. Under a complex power-sharing arrangement that the French refer to as cohabitation, Mitterrand has taken the lead in foreign policy while the newly appointed conservative Premier...
In France, nuclear power produces 65% of the country's electricity, and it is solidly backed by Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and Conservative Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. Nonetheless, the French government has been forced to admit that radiation levels from Chernobyl were much higher than originally thought, and some farmers...
Last week Iturbe was picked up by French police near the town of Arbonne in the Pyrenees. His arrest, for violating an order confining him to the city of Tours, came less than a week after European Community ministers vowed closer cooperation in dealing with terrorists. In Iturbe's case...