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...being French government agents. VSD and L'Evénement du Jeudi charged that agents of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), France's CIA, had arranged the sabotage of the Greenpeace vessel. The accusation brought an immediate response from President François Mitterrand, who dispatched a letter to Lange. "The information that has been sent to us leads us to think that a link may exist between the French service and two persons implicated by New Zealand authorities in the affair of the Rainbow Warrior," he wrote. Mitterrand then appointed Bernard Tricot, a highly...
...convened a minisummit in New York with U.S. allies. He met for two hours after lunch, and again for two hours at dinner, with the government leaders of Canada, Britain, West Germany, Italy and Japan. He also held bilateral sessions with each of these leaders. (French President François Mitterrand boycotted the proceedings out of pique that he had not been consulted before the meetings were scheduled.) The sessions yielded somewhat mixed results: some allies seemed a bit uncomfortable with the shift of emphasis away from arms control and urged Reagan to make a new effort on that front...
Last September French officials belatedly admitted that unnamed secret-service frogmen had carried out the attack, in which a photographer died, to keep the ship from protesting French nuclear tests on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa. The incident had badly shaken the administration of Socialist President François Mitterrand and forced the abrupt departures of two senior government officials. Last week's hearing was expected to reveal new details in the convoluted affair...
...international finance experts began talking about new ways of doing things. Sponsored by Presidential Hopefuls Jack Kemp, a Republican Representative from New York, and Bill Bradley, a Democratic Senator from New Jersey, the two-day conference attracted such luminaries as Jacques Attali, counselor to French President François Mitterrand, New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn and Yusuke Kashiwagi, board chairman of the Bank of Tokyo. No agreements were reached, but a consensus emerged: more must be done to narrow currency fluctuations...
French unemployment, which affects 10% of the work force, is a greater problem than West Germany's, according to Chevalier, because the percentage of jobless youth is significantly higher. He forecasts that unemployment will increase to 11% next year. That is bad news for President François Mitterrand's government, which faces a national election...