Word: mitterrand
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French President Francois Mitterrand insists that the E.C. can both deepen and widen: achieve the Community's goals and help Eastern Europe. But even Delors, "Mr. 1992," doubts whether that aim is achievable: he fears that Germany's preoccupation with making unification work and its commercial expansion into Eastern Europe will slow down the process of E.C. integration...
Bush's words moved the U.S. position a bit closer to that of France, helping to heal what had briefly looked like an ugly split. In his own U.N. speech two weeks ago, President Francois Mitterrand had hinted that Iraq might only have to promise to pull out of Kuwait -- not actually do it -- in order to gain negotiations with Kuwait and progress toward an Arab-Israeli settlement. That spurred a prompt bid from Saddam Hussein for separate French-Iraqi negotiations, which Mitterrand righteously spurned. His government, meanwhile, hastened to assure allies that France still supported the U.N. resolutions calling...
...Mitterrand became the first Western leader to tour the gulf since the crisis broke. He dropped in on Saudi King Fahd (who was quoted by a French spokesman as saying of economic sanctions, "All is very well, but when do we strike?") and leaders of the United Arab Emirates, and spent a night on a French destroyer on embargo-enforcement duty in the gulf. The French press predicted that Mitterrand would soon order another 7,000 ground troops to Saudi Arabia, reinforcing an initial detachment...
...Bush's public demands. But the alliance's true objective has moved beyond restoring the status quo ante to the destruction of Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capacities, a goal almost no one believes can be achieved through negotiation. Hence "the logic of war," to borrow Francois Mitterrand's phrase...
...Saturday an incensed French President Francois Mitterrand called upon the United Nations Security Council to extend the embargo against Saddam to all air traffic flying in and out of Iraq. In addition to announcing the expulsion of military attaches assigned to the Iraqi embassy in Paris, Mitterrand declared he would send an extra 4,000 troops to the gulf, upping the total number of French servicemen in the region to 7,800. He was not alone in answering Bush's call for additional support: Britain dispatched 6,000 more soldiers, Canada will send a squadron of 12 CF-18 jets...