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France's Communist Party faces perhaps the biggest problem in the months ahead because its foreign policy is closely aligned with the Soviet Union's. Yet four Communists hold posts in the 44-member Cabinet of President François Mitterrand, an outspoken foe of Soviet imperialism who wasted no time in denouncing the declaration of martial law in Poland. While Communist Boss Georges Marchais parroted Moscow and Warsaw, blaming Solidarity for "overbidding," the Communist ministers had little choice but to endorse Mitterrand's strong criticism of the Polish move if they wanted to stay...
Another step toward Western unity occurred in Paris, where French President François Mitterrand met for three hours with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The two leaders had some differences to iron out over the Polish question: Mitterrand had consistently taken a strong, anti-Soviet line about the imposition of martial law, while Schmidt had originally been tepid in his criticism, although he took a tougher stand after conferring with President Ronald Reagan two weeks ago. At the end of their meeting, Mitterrand and Schmidt declared that their views were now in harmony...
...multibillion-dollar standards of the international arms trade, the deal that came to light last week was almost unworthy of notice. The Socialist government of French President Francois Mitterrand had quietly agreed to sell $17.5 million worth of "nonoffensive" military equipment to the Marxist-dominated Sandinista government of Nicaragua. The items: two patrol boats, two Alouette III helicopters and 15 trucks. Paris also contracted to train a dozen Nicaraguan pilots and an equal number of sailors in the use of the equipment. Yet when word of the deal reached Washington, both Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar...
Jean-Marie Chevalier was the only member of TIME'S board who favored traditional Keynesian policies of spurring demand, even at the risk of inflation, in order to stem the unemployment plague. This is the program that has been adopted by Mitterrand in France. Said Chevalier: "The French government thinks that its people have a right to work even if we have to pay a price for that in competitive terms in world trade." One benefit, according to Chevalier, is that the Socialists now can count on labor's support. He claimed that restive trade-union leaders...
...successive days, scientists sent by the Vatican met directly with President Reagan, France's Francois Mitterrand, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and, extraordinarily, the Soviet Union's Leonid Brezhnev. Carefully designed to reimpress the world's leaders with the horrific biological results of nuclear war, the mission was one more indication of the new urgency that Pope John Paul II attaches to battling the nuclear threat...