Word: mitterrand
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...trap," and never fails to include the period of Chirac's premiership when he lists France's alleged economic ills. On balance, however, Chirac probably comes out ahead on the issue. Cohabitation has proved popular with most voters. Moreover, Chirac's position allows him to accompany Mitterrand to such highly public occasions as last month's Anglo-French summit meeting in London...
Last week, after a decade of wrangling, a U.S. district judge in Chicago ordered Amoco to pay $85.2 million in damages and interest, the largest penalty ever assessed in an environmental case. Amoco called the sum excessive, and France's President Francois Mitterrand said the damages awarded "scarcely conform to the extent of the disaster." Both sides plan to appeal...
Ronald Reagan was not the only Western leader facing Iran arms-sales allegations last week. In Paris, the conservative daily Le Figaro published a U.S. Defense Department report alleging that President Francois Mitterrand had been informed of French arms sales to Tehran in 1984 and had done nothing to stop them. The report also claimed that the President's Socialist Party may have received as much as $500,000 in kickbacks on the sales, which allegedly involved 500,000 artillery shells worth $120 million...
...Mitterrand acknowledged that he had heard "rumors" of arms shipments to Iran by Luchaire, a French munitions firm. Pointing out that he had banned such sales when he took office in 1981, Mitterrand said he ordered an investigation by intelligence and defense officials. Since he heard nothing further about the problem, he said, he assumed that the sales had ended. As for the charge that the Socialists had benefited from the deal, Mitterrand said he would put his "hand in the fire" to deny...
...French government report alleging that a Bourges munitions firm, Luchaire, sold some 500,000 artillery shells worth $120 million to Tehran between 1983 and 1986. The alleged deal violated a government embargo against military aid to Iran. The report, written by the army controller-general, claims that Mitterrand and Hernu knew of the illicit sales as early as 1984 and did nothing to stop them. The report charges that Mitterrand's Socialist Party may have taken kickbacks worth about $500,000 to look the other...