Word: mitterrand
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...vacant presidency. In fact, the 1989 Algerian constitution makes no such provision. A day later, officials declared that Washington would not stake out a position in the constitutional debate. France, which ruled Algeria until 1962 and still maintains close cultural ties, also zigged and zagged until President Francois Mitterrand concluded that Algeria "must at the earliest possible opportunity go back to a democratic process...
...their economies develop pneumonia whenever America sneezes. Still, political leaders are quick to point a finger abroad when it suits them. Just as some American politicians blame Japan for the recession, the U.S. is a popular whipping boy in Europe. French President Francois Mitterrand finds his popularity plunging along with his economy. On national television last month, he claimed the country had been growing until "suddenly the bad news arrived, mostly from...
...Paris last week, Prime Minister Edith Cresson named unemployment, now nearing 10%, as "the government's public enemy No. 1." The mood of France is so downbeat that Mitterrand coined a new word to describe it: sinistrose, an amalgam of the words for calamity and moroseness...
...immigrants' families to join them and suggested denying welfare payments to residents of non-French ancestry; former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has hinted at refusing automatic citizenship to French-born children of immigrants. All three ideas came straight out of Le Pen's platform. Even Socialist President Francois Mitterrand once declared that France had passed "the threshold of tolerance" in absorbing African and Arab immigrants...
President Bush promised to consult with other world leaders to map out a way. French President Francois Mitterrand hinted that this time Paris might join -- even though France only last month proposed that the European Community lift existing economic sanctions against Libya. An embarrassingly few days later, a French examining magistrate accused four other Libyans, including Gaddafi's brother-in-law Abdallah Senoussi, of bombing a French DC- 10 jet that exploded over Africa nine months after the Lockerbie tragedy (death toll: 171). French intelligence suspects that both bombings were planned at the same meeting in Tripoli...