Word: mitterrand
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BOSNIA. French leaders were immensely pleased with Clinton's visit, and President Francois Mitterrand went out of his way to praise him. Reason: Clinton has finally signed on to French policy in Bosnia. As a Foreign Ministry official in Paris observed, "We now feel we are dealing with a really responsible leader." It is quite a climb-down for Clinton, though the Administration says it is simply realism -- and that may be true. In January 1993 he dismissed European proposals to partition Bosnia as too favorable to the Serbs and a reward for their aggression. In Paris he agreed...
Though in the company of host President Francois Mitterrand and other Allied leaders, including Queen Elizabeth II, Clinton made certain that the men who fought the battle were at his shoulder all day. None was more gallant than hulking Joe Dawson, the captain of G Company, 16th Infantry Regiment, who was the first officer to bring his shattered unit to the ridge above Omaha. Dawson used his native sense and energy to bring order and purpose out of chaos and confound the disciplined Nazi machine. D-day was a battle won by ones and twos and struggling gaggles...
...Paris, as well: the day after the blast, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe and Defense Minister Francois Leotard were already calling for an / ultimatum, and Washington swiftly agreed. Transatlantic telephone conferences between Presidents Clinton and Francois Mitterrand helped iron out some minor differences. By the time NATO ministers met in Brussels Wednesday, there was a joint Franco-American proposal on the table, possibly the first in the 30-odd years since Charles de Gaulle began fulminating against "les Anglo-Saxons...
Paris -- To hear some officials talk, Paris wants Washington to take broad military action in Bosnia. Defense Minister Francois Leotard led the charge last week, calling on "the U.S. to intervene." The actual French position, worked out at a meeting chaired by President Francois Mitterrand, is limited: it calls for the U.S. and its allies to back a proposal authorizing the local U.N. commander to order NATO air strikes against units firing on U.N. troops...
Paris' Louvre Museum celebrated its 200th birthday with the inauguration of the Richelieu wing. This second phase of the museum's spectacular $1 billion renovation -- the dream of President Francois Mitterrand and the work of Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei -- nearly doubles the museum's exhibition space...