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...like the colossal force he once was, but like a fading leader who doesn't have the strength left to push through his agenda. The final years of second presidential terms are often troubled. Charles de Gaulle was sidelined by the student revolt of May 1968; François Mitterrand, ill with cancer, lost most of his power during his last two years at the Elysée when Chirac's own party won parliamentary elections. This doesn't mean that Chirac is completely marginalized, of course; he still has great autonomy in foreign and military affairs...
...business. It mines and enriches uranium ore to make nuclear fuel; it designs and constructs reactors and helps operate them; and it recycles the spent fuel and packages the remaining waste. An engineer by training, Lauvergeon worked as an aide to the late French President François Mitterrand before joining the Lazard investment bank. In the late 1990s, the government asked her to take over Cogema, a state-owned nuclear reprocessing company. Convinced that nuclear had a big future, she orchestrated a merger with the other state-owned nuclear company, Framatome, which built plants and mined uranium, to create...
...from Milan to Madrid. Thousands marched through streets, calling President Reagan a murderer and demanding that their country withdraw from NATO. The protesters mirrored the official positions of most European governments. When the U.S. planes went into Libya, only the British government of Margaret Thatcher actively supported Reagan. The Mitterrand-Chirac administration in France, like Felipe González Márquez's government in Spain, refused to let U.S. aircraft overfly the two countries. The Italian government of Bettino Craxi harshly criticized the operation, while Helmut Kohl's West Germany was anxiously quiet. TIME's Paris bureau chief, Jordan Bonfante, sent...
...retaliation is the military one. European officers, indeed even some senior NATO figures, argue that the U.S. strike was not strong enough to attain its military objectives. It neither destroyed nor destabilized the Gaddafi regime. It may, instead, have compelled moderate Arab governments to rally behind Gaddafi. Mitterrand and Chirac complained to U.S. Envoy Vernon Walters that a limited bombing raid could stir up a new wave of Islamic extremism. "With a victory like that, who needs a defeat?" said Dominique Moïsi, a French strategic expert...
...happened before, the big questions about unity at the meeting may revolve around French President François Mitterrand. This year France's position at the summit is cloudier than ever because of the installation in March of Conservative Jacques Chirac as Socialist Mitterrand's Premier. Chirac has decided to put in an appearance at the meeting, throwing the protocol-conscious Japanese into a tizzy. One compromise: Chirac will show up at Akasaka only after the opening state dinner, thus avoiding a major problem with head-table seating...