Word: mitterrand
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From the topless beaches of the Côte d'Azur to back packing trails in the Alps, French vacationers last week were enjoying the final moments of their summer holidays. An uncommon number of them, including President François Mitterrand, seemed to have their noses buried in a book. The tome was France's latest rage, a 565-page edition of the apocalyptic predictions of Nostradamus, the Renaissance physician and astrologer. Noted the newsweekly Le Point in a cover story on the sudden French passion for bleak prophecies: "The man of this summer is not Mitterrand, but Nostradamus...
...Administration's decision. France, which is not a member of the NATO military organization and is developing its own neutron warhead, gave what amounted to a qualified endorsement of the weapon. Said Charles Hernu, the Defense Minister in the new Socialist government of François Mitterrand: "The neutron bomb must not obscure the reality of the threats posed by the [Soviet] Euromissiles." In West Germany, Franz Josef Strauss, who was the conservative Christian Democratic opponent to Schmidt in last year's election, said that the "dismal situation of defense budgets" in NATO countries had left Reagan with...
...inspiration to an old familiar figure who is happily playing a new role. Willy Brandt, 67, is suddenly back in the news, both at home and abroad-going to the Kremlin to discuss disarmament with Leonid Brezhnev, standing under the Arc de Triomphe at his friend Frangois Mitterrand's inauguration, initiating a North-South conference in Mexico in October that will be attended by President Reagan. Some West German politicians regard Brandt as a possible replacement for his rival and successor, Helmut Schmidt, should the growing opposition from the Social Democratic Party's pacifist left wing force Schmidt...
...small Vendee city of Challans wants to produce Christmas turkeys? It must satisfy the Ministry for Agriculture that its birds meet national standards. And so it has long been in France, the Western nation with the most centralized government. Last week, fulfilling a campaign promise, President François Mitterrand's Socialist parliamentary majority approved the first half of a package that will return to local governments powers that, in some cases, they have not enjoyed since the 12th century...
...concept better understood than in France. Since 1800 an elite corps of Paris-appointed prefects-referred to by Napoleon as his "little emperors"-has carried the Tricolor and the edicts of the central government into each of the country's 95 départements, or districts. Under Mitterrand's reform, municipal and departmental decisions will no longer have to be submitted to the prefect for approval. Indeed, each prefect will be replaced by a Commissioner of the Republic, who will be informed only after action on such matters as roads, sanitation and budgets has been taken...