Word: mitterrand
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...current crisis is no mere cyclical spasm. With both the cold war and the Mitterrand era over, France faces critical challenges. Will it be able to play a leading role in a more united Europe, or will it end the century where it began--overshadowed by a strong, united Germany? Will it continue to modernize its economy, or will it cling to a large, state-protected sector as a source of jobs and social stability? Will the French be able to preserve their culture and national identity in the face of the continuing encroachment by the Anglo-Saxons...
Chirac, whose decision was accompanied by a pledge to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty that is due to be completed late next year, justified his decision to resume testing entirely on technical and scientific grounds. His predecessor Francois Mitterrand, he explained, had interrupted a critical series of tests "a little too early" by declaring a moratorium in April 1992. In order to ensure the reliability of its nuclear deterrent, said Chirac, France had no choice but to complete its "experimental program...
...salute sounded at the Elysee Palace in Paris today asConservative Jacques Chirac, mayor of Paris for nearly two decades, succeeded Socialist Francois Mitterrand. "I feel that hope has been vested in me," Chirac said in his inaugural address, promising to govern with "dignity, simplicity and loyalty to our republican values." Chirac, 62, failed in two earlier bids for the presidency.TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sanctonsays the excitement was contagious among crowds who lined the Champs Elysee this morning. "The whole country's rooting for this administration to succeed," Sancton says. "In France, there's a sense that you have...
...very long time, and his preparations have finally borne sweet fruit. Last Sunday, after a tough come-from-behind campaign and a nail-biting finish, Chirac, 62, defeated the Socialists' candidate Lionel Jospin by a comfortable margin. He will thus succeed Socialist Francois Mitterrand, 78, whose second seven-year term ends on May 20. For a man who had lost presidential bids in 1981 and 1988-and who seemed to have been eliminated from this race only a few months ago -- it was an extraordinary personal vindication...
During the campaign, Chirac accurately described a "social fracture" in French society. Whether his contradictory program will actually lower unemployment is an open question, but Chirac himself may offer something that will help heal that fracture. Unlike the monarchical Mitterrand or the dry Jospin or the hatemongering Le Pen, he has empathy, gregariousness, heart. One thing the alienated French may require from their politicians right now is "contact"; Chirac is the one to provide it. --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris