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Gemayel emphasized in Washington, as well as during his subsequent talks in Paris and Rome, that the extra peace-keeping forces would be needed until the Lebanese army has been significantly strengthened. In Paris, President François Mitterrand promised to increase the number of French troops in Lebanon. Said an Elysée spokesman...
...Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, the Christian Democratic leader had sworn in a new 17-member Cabinet, chaired his first Cabinet meeting, held a press conference and jetted off to Paris for a hastily arranged get-acquainted dinner with his most important Western European partner, French President François Mitterrand. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, hopped another jetliner for New York City, where he sat down for preliminary talks with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations. The aim of all of this brisk activity was nothing less...
That honor was returned last Saturday, with affection. Among those film celebrities, pop notables and real and Graustarkian dignitaries who attended her funeral were Nancy Reagan, French President François Mitterrand's wife Danielle, Ireland's President Patrick Hillery, Gary Grant, Frank Sinatra's wife Barbara, Film Mogul Sam Spiegel, Racing Driver Jackie Stewart, Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Bertil of Sweden, Princess Benedikta of Denmark, Don Juan de Bourbon, father of Spain's King Juan-Carlos, Holland's Prince Bernhard, Grand Duchess Josephine of Luxembourg, Michael, former King of Rumania, Frederika, former Queen...
...should not weaken the bonds between London and Bonn. Though Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enjoyed good personal relations, Britain's Conservative Party is ideologically closer to West Germany's Christian Democrats. The opposite will be true for France. During his summer holidays, President Francois Mitterrand is said to have been telling friends that his biggest current worry was what would happen in West Germany this fall. Cool at first, Schmidt and Mitterrand developed a close working relationship...
...seizure of banks by the Mexican government may also be ineffective or counterproductive. After French President François Mitterrand nationalized his country's banks in February, many edgy foreigners pulled bank deposits out of France, and that helped push the franc to record lows. Bruce Bagley, an associate director of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, thinks investors will be even more hesitant to keep money in Mexico's nationalized banks because of the government's reputation for corruption...