Word: mitterrand
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...after all, he is only one man. The U.S. kept ticking away when Dwight Eisenhower suffered from serious illnesses. When Ronald Reagan was severely wounded, the government kept working. The diagnosis of Francois Mitterrand's ultimately fatal cancer early in his presidential term didn't stop France from functioning...
...bones. But a guest whom Mobutu received last week found that he looked relaxed and appeared in command of himself. Mobutu planned to return to Lausanne for more tests and said he is keen to get back to Zaire. He hopes to imitate former French President Francois Mitterrand, who survived nearly 15 years with prostate cancer...
...treatment. It employs a dozen doctors and psychiatrists to review videos of world leaders for signs of physical or mental ailments: weight changes, pale skin, unsteady gait, even wrinkles on ear-lobes (one indication of heart problems). For example, agency physicians privately concluded that the late French President Francois Mitterrand had cancer more than a decade before he made it public. But on July 3, on the morning of the Russian presidential vote, the CIA received a call from Clinton aides: Why hasn't Boris Yeltsin been seen for four days? The CIA's response: Maybe a virus? Administration officials...
There is always the winking Old World idea that adultery is an essentially victimless indulgence. At Francois Mitterrand's graveside not long ago, the mistress mourned alongside the widow. Further, what was once considered the seed-scattering privileges of the seigneur may have yielded to the modern thought that reckless masculinity is characteristic of the risk-taking personality best suited to strong leadership...
American Presidents, from Abe Lincoln to Jimmy Carter, have expressed a softer side by writing poetry. French Presidents prefer love stories. Valery Giscard d'Estaing even penned an erotic novel. Now a novella by FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, written in 1940 when he was 23 and in the army, has been auctioned for $7,600. Premier Accord is the story of a young man's love for Elsa, who is "supple, gay, effervescent...a Persian at the sword, her pink curves like a jar of hair cream." Pardon...