Word: mitterrand
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...sharp turnaround, and why now? It appears the West's steeliness is % more reactive than provocative. For months, Western patience with Iraq has been wearing thin. Since January, Saddam has tweaked his enemies time and again, counting on Bush, Major and French President Francois Mitterrand to be too distracted by domestic issues to respond. "Saddam concluded that with all its problems, the West lacked the stomach to go to war with him again," says a senior British diplomat. "He saw that as an excellent opportunity to push his luck...
...even the slivers are vanishing. "While ((French President Francois)) Mitterrand's visit diverted the world's attention to Sarajevo, the Serbs got all they wanted in northern Bosnia," says Vinko Begic, mayor of Derventa, one of the last towns to fall to the Serb offensive. In eastern Bosnia, only Gorazde, a town whose normal population of 20,000 has been swollen to 70,000 by a tide of refugees, remains a haven for the Muslims, and it is under heavy siege...
Following the lead of French President Francois Mitterrand, Bush pledged to send "whatever it takes," including U.S. fighter bombers and helicopter gunships, to protect food shipments to besieged civilians in secessionist Bosnia-Herzegovina. At a dinner of foreign ministers in Munich, Secretary of State James Baker told France's Roland Dumas that the U.S. was ready to make other major concessions to win a trade agreement if France would make deep and rapid cuts in farm subsidies. Would Paris reciprocate? "No," Dumas replied. But what, Baker asked, if France got all the concessions it wanted? Dumas repeated, coldly...
...some allies this sounds like an invitation for their soldiers to do the dying. According to a senior French official, George Bush last week telephoned President Francois Mitterrand to try out an idea for joint air strikes against Serbian positions around Sarajevo and along the road to Split, the Adriatic port from which relief supplies might be sent overland. Mitterrand, says the official, refused because that might expose the 250 French soldiers flown into Sarajevo airport last week to Serbian reprisals. White House officials snort that Bush proposed no such thing. But the story illustrates the unwillingness of Europeans...
...enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, caught in a violent tug-of-war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Even peaceful secessions could spawn a slew of mininations, unable to support themselves economically and dependent on aid from richer nations for survival. At a recent international conference French President Francois Mitterrand worried out loud "whether in the future every tribal group will dispose of its own laws to the exclusion of any common law?" and immediately answered himself, "You can sense how impossible that would...