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Another Kissinger favorite, surprisingly enough, is French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, who has been the Secretary's most acerbic critic in European assemblies. Kissinger's superlatives, though, are saved for Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, whom he describes as "the greatest statesman...
...allies was all over Washington-and, worse, all over Europe. Foreign news agencies and embassies scurried to obtain accurate texts. By the time that the State Department issued a somewhat laundered transcript of the talk, the damage had been done. Europe was stunned. Said French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, who later in the week accompanied President Georges Pompidou on a state visit to the Soviet Union: "Kissinger does not understand Europe." In Bonn, a ranking German official complained: "Now we have a cold war between America and Europe." A Belgian official advised Europe to "try to behave, publicly at least...
...none other than Pierre Messmer. Although the number of Ministers in the new Cabinet had been trimmed from 23 to 16 in the name of "cohesion," the major portfolios -economy and foreign policy-remained in familiar hands. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing continues as Finance Minister. Michel Jobert remains as Foreign Minister. So why the reshuffle...
...summoned at a moment's notice to the presidential palace. If Bokassa is angry, they can expect anything from a drunken tirade to a personally administered presidential beating to instant imprisonment. Even harsher treatment has been meted out to the President's political opponents, real or imagined. Michel Mounomboye, security chief at the time of Bokassa's takeover, had his eyes torn out in front of his family before being executed. When Lieut. Colonel Alexandre Banza, who backed Bokassa's grab for power, was accused in 1969 of planning another coup, he was dragged before...
...negotiating pacts with Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya that would guarantee it millions of barrels of oil in return for stepped-up deliveries of French weapons and technology to the producers. Kissinger voiced fears that such deals would only bid up oil prices still higher, but French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert pointed out caustically that at least six other nations were negotiating similar trades...