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...elite school are known, who previously held posts with the leftist Fourth Republic government of Pierre Mendès-France, then was Ambassador to Indonesia under Charles de Gaulle, and served as a commissioner of the European Community in the Giscard years. Fellow E.N.A. graduates are Planning Minister Michel Rocard ('58) and Budget Minister Laurent Fabius ('73), among others...
Mauroy's only real moment of friction with Mitterrand came in 1979. Impatient with the Socialists' slowness in breaking the alliance with the Communists, Mauroy, by then the mayor of Lille, briefly promoted Michel Rocard as the party's next presidential nominee. But when Mitterrand announced he would run again, Mauroy loyally swung back into line...
Richter's statement contradicted Eklund, but failed to explain how the Iraqis could fool the French technicians constantly on the scene. Last week the French government disclosed a secret agreement with Iraq for keeping French personnel at the reactor site until 1989. Michel Pecqueur, head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, insisted that the continued French presence would make it "impossible" for Iraq to stockpile the material to manufacture atomic weapons. If the Iraqis did try to cheat, he said, France would have cut off further supplies of enriched uranium. Pecqueur granted that a "significant quantity" of plutonium could...
...massacre of European Jewry. The passengers were Holocaust survivors and their children, headed for an unprecedented four-day meeting in Jerusalem, where their stones will be used to build a memorial for the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis. Explained Auschwitz Survivor Ernest Michel, 54, who organized the gathering: "Since the victims have no graves where we can mourn them, we have brought to Israel pieces of rock from all over the world, so that our children, and theirs too, can have a place to mourn...
Still, the gathering was also intended as a celebration. Michel, a New York executive for the United Jewish Appeal (though the organization did not sponsor the Jerusalem meeting), recalled that while in Auschwitz he and some other inmates had conceived the idea of a survivors' meeting after a fellow prisoner suggested that if they came out alive they might some day meet as free men. "We all laughed," Michel recalled. "But the idea stayed with those of us who made it." In Jerusalem, he tracked down three acquaintances from Auschwitz. When Julius Paltiel from Trondheim, Norway, threw his arms...