Word: mitterrand
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FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERrand had been in office just six months when his doctor gave him the grim news: the leg and back pains he had been experiencing were due to a previously undiagnosed cancer of the prostate that had spread to his bones. The prognosis was not good. Half the men in Mitterrand's condition die within three years. Only 1 in 10 survives a decade or more...
...that's just what Mitterrand did. And his death two weeks ago--following a string of highly publicized prostate-cancer deaths that includes those of Telly Savalas, Don Ameche and Frank Zappa--served to underscore how unpredictable the disease can be and why regular checkups are so important for the middle-aged men who are most susceptible. Prostate-cancer rates have been rising steadily for the past two decades; it is now for men the second most deadly form of cancer, after lung disease, striking 300,000 Americans each year and killing 40,000. Although doctors can easily treat...
...year-old leader had started to make a round of high-profile appearances: strolling in the Kremlin, laying ceremonial bricks for a cathedral and praying at an Orthodox Christmas Mass. He even flew to Paris in the midst of the hostage crisis to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand and demonstrate his fitness for office. "I am in perfect health," he told reporters. "I came here so everyone could see I was in perfect form." It was a startling contrast to the TV images of November that showed a visibly pale and wobbly Yeltsin going through the motions of meeting...
DIED. FRANCOIS MITTERRAND, 79, former President of France; of cancer; in Paris. He was a man of frustrating arrogance, a man of contradictory impulses--but above all, as even his opponents acknowledged, Mitterrand was a man of France. The son of a railroad employee turned vinegar producer, Mitterrand went to Paris to study law in 1934. Drafted at the outbreak of World War II, he was imprisoned by the Germans in 1940. He escaped, co-founding a Resistance group with a network of ex-prisoners in 1943. After the liberation, he was elected to the National Assembly, and between...
...that Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who diffused a similar situation last June, take part in the negotiations. Unlike that crisis, Moscow this time has so far refused to enter talks. Russian President Boris Yeltsin is taking a hard-line approach. In Paris to attend the funeral of Francois Mitterrand, Yeltsin said he would agree to the rebel demand that Russian troops leave Chechnya, but only after the rebels agree to disarm. This essentially has been the Russian position for several months and a chief sticking point when peace talks collapsed last year...