Word: mitterrand
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...Picking Mitterrand's Successor...
Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin got a big boost in his run for the French presidency after winning 23.3% of the first-round balloting against Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac's 20.8%. Still, Chirac is favored to win Sunday's runoff and succeed two-term President Francois Mitterrand...
...trademark fatigues for a dark blue suit and spotted tie, he criticized "blind and savage market laws" at the world-poverty summit in Copenhagen, told UNESCO in Paris that the U.S. blockade of Cuba was "criminal" and basked in the lavish praise of outgoing Socialist French President Francois Mitterrand and his wife Danielle. Castro also played tourist. "My strongest impression?" he told reporters. "Chablis wine...
...agency ordered one of the accused officers to leave France, and was planning to move a second officer. But the cover was blown on the affair by French presidential-election politics, say officials in both countries. Once a sure bet to succeed Socialist President Francois Mitterrand in the April 23 election, Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur has recently seen his high poll ratings nose-dive. His campaign was badly damaged by revelations that Pasqua, a Balladur supporter, authorized an illegal wiretap last December on the father-in-law of a judge investigating an illegal campaign-funding scheme in Pasqua...
...Socialists' troubles began long before the current campaign. They have been reeling since March 1993, when the conservatives crushed them in legislative elections and forced Mitterrand to share power with a hostile conservative majority. From that point on, the party, which has lost nearly half its members since 1981, has been in free fall. The low point was a dismal 14% showing in last June's European parliamentary elections, which prompted party leader Michel Rocard's resignation and thereby eliminated the most obvious Socialist presidential candidate...