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...French traditionally oppose political statements at economic summits, but President François Mitterrand agreed to go along. At first, the U.S. wanted the declaration to include a commentary on East-West relations. The idea was dropped after the French objected, and the U.S. proposed the idea of a separate East-West statement. Then summit aides labored until 3 a.m. to produce a draft wording for the Thatcher-inspired values document...
...their cannons across the snow-covered Great St. Bernard Pass. Napoleon sent an IOU promising, "I will reimburse everything." Since then the citizens of Bourg St. Pierre have been trying in vain to collect the 30,254 gold francs they say they are owed. When President François Mitterrand visited Switzerland last year, they politely reminded him of the outstanding debt. They did not ask for a specific sum, however, because with compound interest the amount would have reached tens of millions of dollars...
...response, a personal representative of Mitterrand's has arrived in Bourg St. Pierre (pop. 214) bearing a commemorative plaque and a handwritten letter from the President, thanking the village for the hospitality shown Napoleon. French officials said the matter had been resolved "in a warm and friendly way." Mayor Fernand Dorsaz accepted the plaque and letter as symbols of the debt's amicable settlement, and declared the matter "closed and settled-with a tinge of nostalgia...
...services firm. The executive is Frenchman Jean Riboud, who is profiled in The Art of Corporate Success (Putnam; 184 pages; $15.95) by Writer Ken Auletta. Riboud, 64, is a corporate enigma. A hardheaded capitalist in business matters, he is nevertheless a confidant of Socialist French President François Mitterrand...
...about joblessness. In Holland, where the commitment to the shorter week is strongest, the government has pressed for fewer hours by a formula that would also cut pay. Yet Dutch unemployment is still 14.9%, among the highest in Europe. In 1982 the new Socialist government of François Mitterrand cut the French work week by an hour, to 39 hours, but it is backing off from a promise to lower...