Word: laurents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television interview last week, a besieged Premier Laurent Fabius credited reporters with helping clear up "this unfortunate affair," noting that "it is they who have opened the floodgates to a vein of lies that existed...
...police investigation in New Zealand and a stream of press revelations in France steadily increased suspicions that Mitterrand and his advisers had indeed played a role in the affair. Early last week, after forcing the resignations of France's Defense Minister and its head of foreign intelligence operations, Premier Laurent Fabius went on national television and admitted that the Rainbow Warrior had been blown up by French agents on the orders of unnamed government officials...
...little chance the agents who actually carried out the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior will ever face trial in New Zealand. French law forbids their extradition, and the Mitterrand government, so far at least, refuses to name them. But in the arena of French politics, the prosecution of Laurent Fabius and Francois Mitterrand may have just begun. At week's end DGSE Director Imbot issued an ominous warning: "There has been a plot to destabilize and destroy the intelligence services. I have now sealed off those services. From now on, anything you hear in the press does not come from...
...Elysee Palace for two days. At his weekly Cabinet meeting, Mitterrand asked questions about the Greenpeace affair and furiously turned to Hernu, whose responsibilities included overseeing the secret services. "I want to know," said Mitterrand. "I want to know." Next day the President sent a letter to Premier Laurent Fabius noting that French newspapers and magazines were uncovering "new elements that we cannot evaluate because of the absence of information from the appropriate services." It was a strange plea. Mitterrand was, in effect, asking his own government to supply information the press had already published. He ended the letter with...
...emerged from his office at 72 Rue de Varenne on Paris' Left Bank, climbed into his Peugeot and was driven 150 yards to No. 57, the Matignon palace. There he was quickly escorted to a second-floor office, where, on a Louis XV desk, in front of Premier Laurent Fabius, he placed a folder containing 29 typewritten pages. After a 20-minute conversation, the man left, and the Premier began studying the document. The 17-day labor of Bernard Tricot, Charles de Gaulle's former chief of staff, was finished...