Word: mitterrand
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...citizens took part in marches all across France last week to register their disgust with bigotry. In the Paris protest, which drew some 80,000 people, members of all religions and political parties -- except Le Pen's -- rallied together for the first time in recent memory. Even President Francois Mitterrand was there, marking the first time since Paris' liberation in 1945 that a French head of state has taken to the streets to demonstrate...
...other specialty of the house is politics. The National Assembly is just a few blocks down the boulevard, and when sessions run late, legislators traditionally repair to Lipp's for sustenance, discussion and intrigue. One of the regulars over the years has been Francois Mitterrand, now, of course, President of the Republic. Any cafe that can claim a President among its customers has little need of further endorsements...
FRENCH CUFFS. The Florida meeting between George Bush and Francois Mitterrand was not as sunny as participants pretended. Behind the scenes, French officials had been scoffing at American hopes of basing Europe's future security on NATO. "You talk about a new NATO mission," said a senior diplomat, "but the U.S. no longer even understands the aim of NATO." However, the cuffs that really irked Bush were from Jacques Attali, | Mitterrand's national security adviser, who in a new book published in France trashes the U.S. as a hopelessly declining power. The best revenge may be . . . revenge. France wants Attali...
Lithuanians had been hoping for foreign intervention in their secession standoff with Moscow, but what they got last week was not what they had in mind. Winding up a summit in Paris, French President Francois Mitterrand and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl urged Vilnius to resolve its crisis with Moscow "through the classic channels of dialogue." To get talks going, they suggested in a letter to Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis, "it would be helpful if the effects of the decisions taken by your Parliament were suspended...
While the passion for independence still burns high, some sober-minded Lithuanians are beginning to wonder if they might have been too hasty. Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene seemed to suggest that the deliberately vague terms of the Kohl-Mitterrand letter might serve as a vehicle for compromise. But the main stumbling block remains: what to do about the March 11 declaration of independence. Lithuanians are interpreting the proposed suspension to refer only to legislation passed after March 11, while Moscow reads it to include suspension of the declaration itself. The no-retreat camp still has the upper hand in Vilnius...