Word: mitterand
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...those years I followed the German press fairly regularly. All I ever learned about his family--already more than I cared to--was that he had two sons. The lack of supply of such news is at least partly due to a lack of demand. French President Francois Mitterand was known to have been sexually enterprising, but when Paris Match disclosed that he had a daughter from one of his mistresses, the magazine's sales plunged...
PARIS: Former French President Francois Mitterand succumbed to prostate cancer Monday. He served longer (14 years) as France's president than anyone since Napoleon III, leaving behind "a mixed legacy that is bound to fascinate and confound historians for decades to come," says Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. Mitterand became president in 1981 as a socialist, but two years after sweeping nationalizations and other leftist policies had created runaway inflation, a spiraling trade deficit and a sagging franc, he abruptly changed course and put the country on a solidly capitalistic course. For that, critics called him a cynical, power-thirsty...
...section of the film focusses on the filmmakers' attempts to maneuver France into more committed involvement in the war. Using what must be sizeable prestige, Levy conveys a message from Bosnian President Izetbegovic to French President Mitterand...
...Mitterand eventually makes a visit to Sarajevo, temporarily bouying Bosnian spirits, but ultimately leaving them disappointed and less hopeful than before. An edited sequence of interviews with Mitterand and Izetbegovic plays up the dissimulation inherent in Western policy in Bosnia. But the politics are personal, limited to these two men and the context remains narrow...
...York Times story a couple weeks ago about the opening of the Chunnel--the wittily named tunnel under the English Channel--reported that the English are disgruntled about the impending arrival of hordes of "garlic-breathed" French. When Francois Mitterand visited Great Britain to participate in the project's ground-breaking ceremony, he was greeted with cries of "Froggy! Froggy! Froggy...