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Italian Premier Giovanni Spadolini was visiting French President Francois Mitterrand when the speech was given. Said Spadolini, upon emerging from the Elysee Palace: "The Italian and French reactions are both favorable." Concurred French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "The zero solution is obviously advisable." Skeptics, however, dismissed the speech as a cynical attempt to score off the Soviets by making Moscow an offer it could not accept...
...peace. Joseph Luns, NATO's outspoken Secretary-General, noted the ultimate irony: "There is a greater fear of the weapons NATO is to deploy than of the weapons the U.S.S.R. has already deployed." Alarmed by the antimissile movement's challenge to the Western alliance, France's President François Mitterrand, a firm believer in U.S. defense policies, said during his visit to the U.S. last month: "As soon as possible, the U.S. should take the initiative, catch the ball while it is in the air. If it does not seize this opportunity, European countries will feel compelled to speak...
...Giscard d'Estaing, in May, but he suggested that the planning begin. The meeting broke up with no decision being made. Still, U.S. officials agreed to keep the talks going. The venture came to an abrupt halt when Giscard was unexpectedly defeated at the polls by Socialist Francois Mitterrand...
Officials of the Mitterrand government insisted last week that they had never heard of any proposal to kill Gaddafi. French sources acknowledge that there were discussions on the intelligence agency level, but say that the plan was never adopted. The French official has disavowed any role in such a plot...
...Enter Mitterrand. In an effort to wean Oueddei away from Gaddafi, Mitterrand supported the proposal for an inter-African force, invited Oueddei to Paris, supplied his army with some small arms and repeated an earlier offer to help rebuild the Chadian army in a neighboring country, probably Cameroon. In early October, the French Development Minister, Jean-Pierre Cot, demanded the withdrawal of the Libyans from Chad by the end of the year. Oueddei, bolstered by the French, openly criticized the Libyan presence...