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...accounts, his was a masterful performance. Like his predecessors d'Estaing, Pompidou and deGaulle, Mitterrand can be a captivating, often literary speaker. As he began to spell out the French role in the Lebanese crisis, the President was clearly at his best...
...Mitterrand, then vacationing in central France, had to act. He had promised during his 1980 campaign that he would be "The Tranquil Force" and wanted to reassure his countrymen they would be protected. At the same time, he felt he had to clarify French intentions in Lebanon. Television was his chosen method...
...Presence, balance, peace," said Mitterrand, the first French head of state to visit Israel. "Those are the same words I spoke to the Knesset in April...And I say to you now. France's Arab policy will never be anti-Israel, just as France's Israeli policy will never be anti-Arab." Mitterrand called once again for a homeland for the Palestinians. "But the PLO must, above all else, recognize the right of Israel to exist within secure borders, in peace...
...recent incidents, he claimed, were not proof of a latent French anti-Semitism. Instead, radical elements sabotaging France's role in mediating the Lebanese confrontation, were to blame. After announcing a series of security provisions, including police reinforcements and the creation of a secretary of state for security. Mitterrand assumed a grave, but confident expression. "There will come a day when terrorism will fall under our blows. With courage and perseverence, we shall win this fight...
...NEARLY A MONTH AFTER the attack on Goldenberg's, it is possible to look back on events more dispassionately. Mitterrand's "radical elements" theory seems to hold water. Police have since dug up evidence linking the restaurant assassins to a PLO splinter group even more extreme in its demands than PLO leader Yassin Arafat. Simone Weil, a former minister and Auschwitz survivor has explained. "I truly do not believe the French are anti-Semitic. There are people in the world trying to destabilize our democracies. In France, Jews are the most obvious target...