Word: mitterrand
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...effort to check Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi's expansionist aims, President Reagan had dispatched $25 million worth of military aid, two AWACS electronic surveillance planes, eight F-15 fighter escorts and a reconnaissance plane to the area. After some hesitation, French PresidentFrançois Mitterrand agreed last week to send 300 elite paratroopers as "trainers" and "advisers." But given the size of the Libyan commitment, which included 2,500 ground troops and impressive airpower, the limited U.S. and French assistance failed to turn the tide. In a press conference after the fall of Faya-Largeau, Reagan indicated that...
...collection of some of those same poems, together with many of the prisoner's letters, was published in French as a third volume, Castro's Prisoner (1979). These works established his literary reputation internationally. Last October, thanks to the efforts of French President Fran&3231;ois Mitterrand and the Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal, among others, Castro agreed to release Valladares. He now lives in Madrid, where he spends his time writing. He also runs Internationale de la Resistance, a Paris-based human rights organization that he helped found earlier this year. The group's purpose, he says...
...government of French President François Mitterrand has sent close to $40 million worth of arms and supplies to its former colony since late June. Last week France responded to an urgent plea from Habré by shipping antiaircraft weaponry to N'Djamena. Mitterrand has hesitated to send French troops to Chad. But he has come under pressure from a number of African nations that fear a Libyan victory in Chad would encourage Gaddafi to spread his subversion throughout the area...
...grudgingly agreed at the Williamsburg economic summit in May to consider more ambitious actions. Under prodding from French President François Mitterrand, Washington said it would help stabilize foreign-exchange markets whenever trading became unusually hectic. Some foreign officials, however, had doubted that the Reagan Administration would honor that agreement. Said French Finance Minister Jacques Delors early last week: "The Americans mock Europe and pursue their policies with insensitivity. They only do what's in their own interest...
Despite the harsh tone, there are no signs that the Socialists and the Communists are moving toward an open break. However uncomfortable it may sometimes be for them, the Communists, who hold four ministerial portfolios, grudgingly support Mitterrand's economic austerity plan and recent incentives for private enterprise. They insist that they will remain in the government, come what may. Said Marchais: "Those who think that we are preparing to leave the government because of all this are entertaining false illusions...