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...Israel, Mitterrand pleads for Palestinian rights...
...demonstration of Franco-German unity belied early doubts that Schmidt and Mitterrand would get along. The West German Chancellor had not concealed his preference for the re-election of his longtime friend, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, with whom he had worked closely in the European Community for seven years. Nor did he have much faith in the expansionary economic policies proposed by the new French President. Unlike Schmidt and Giscard, who always spoke English together, last week's summiteers do not have a common language. So instead of enjoying the spontaneity and confidentiality of Vieraugengesprdche (four-eyed...
...first time since Mitterrand's election last May that the leaders of France and West Germany felt compelled to focus such attention on their common stand. Their solemn communique blamed Soviet "pressure and concourse" for events in Poland, and called for the repeal of martial law, the release of union members and talks between the government, the Roman Catholic Church and Solidarity. Said the declaration: "The repressive measures taken by the Polish leadership under pressure from, and backed by, the Soviet Union, constitute a violation of human rights and of the Helsinki Final Act, and place a heavy mortgage...
...Mitterrand and Schmidt also had words of caution for the U.S. They attacked the Reagan Administration for policies that were causing worldwide high interest rates (see cover story) and for being insensitive to European economic problems. To be sure, they expressed support for the two-track NATO approach to arms control-deploying a new generation of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe while the U.S. undertakes new arms negotiations with the Soviet Union. But Mitterrand conveyed, ever so subtly, a joint complaint about the Atlantic Alliance. "The foun dation of [U.S.-European] relations is solid," he said. "That...
...Orson Welles has not made a lot of films, a dozen, I believe, but I've seen all of them." The declaration last week came not from some pallid revival moviehouse veteran, but from French President François Mitterrand, 65. Speaking at the Elysée Palace in Paris, Movie Fan Mitterrand then intoned: "Mr. Welles, we grant you the honor of Commander of the French Legion of Honor." The director of such film classics as The Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane was less awed by his own craft. "The director is the most overrated artist...