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...walkout by the Soviets at Geneva could occur at any time after the vote; the only uncertainty was over how the walkout would occur, and exactly when. In the tense interlude, the new stage in the Euromissile campaign was dramatically summed up by French President François Mitterrand in a national television appearance. Said he: "The crisis we are experiencing is the most serious the world has known since Berlin and Cuba...
...united in its resolve. After three days of debate, Italy's parliament last week voted, 351 to 219, to back the government of Socialist Prime Minister Bettino Craxi in fulfilling the Italian commitment to accept 112 cruise missiles as its share of the NATO nuclear burden. French President Mitterrand, whose country is not in NATO's military command though it is a member of the political alliance, used much of a 90-minute television broadcast last week to put the blame for the missile crisis squarely on the U.S.S.R. He declared that "the leaders of the Kremlin seek...
That night in Paris, French President François Mitterrand told his countrymen in a television interview: "You can be sure that the crime of Oct. 23 will not go unpunished." Scarcely 17 hours later, 14 French Super Etendard fighter-bombers from the aircraft carrier Clemenceau staged a 35-minute attack on the same region of the Bekaa Valley, leveling barracks and training bases of the Shi'ite extremists. Among the targets was the ancient city of Baalbek's Khawwam Hotel, the command headquarters of the estimated 1,000 Iranian Islamic revolutionary guards who have been operating...
Similarly, French President null Mitterrand had quickly and dryly criticized the U.S. action, but in private French officials were taking a more detached view. Said one: "If the Americans withdraw quickly and set up some truly democratic institutions, Grenada could fade mercifully into the political background within a month." Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi made it clear that the invasion of Grenada would not affect Italy's commitment to the NATO decision...
...popular-opinion sweepstakes (with 8%). Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a neo-Gaullist, was still in the lead but slipping (with 37%). Only former Finance Minister Raymond Barre, a champion of austerity himself, seemed to be gaining in popularity (up 5% in the past month, to 20%). For Mitterrand, who is waiting for the fruits of austerity to help the Socialists in parliamentary elections two years from now, that could be a good omen. As the President told the dispirited congress: "Better days will come...