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...Mitterrand Wins...
After reading your article on President Mitterrand, I see that we have no need to meddle in a situation that is not our own. The French will destroy France without our help, and I believe we owe them the opportunity...
Finally, the Communists were too feeble to cause Mitterrand any domestic problems. Nothing illustrated that weakness more strikingly than their endorsement last week of a joint political platform supporting all the key Socialist positions on domestic and foreign policy. Many of its planks, such as those on Afghanistan and Poland, reversed the Communists' traditional pro-Moscow line. On the issue of Euromissiles, the Communists were led for the first time to support a specific call for a negotiated reduction of Soviet SS-20s in Eastern Europe...
...accepted into the Socialist Cabinet, the Communists not only had to pledge themselves to support Mitterrand's program and pace, but they had to disavow a number of their basic foreign policy positions. Key quotes from the agreement with the Socialists...
...parties are resolved to promote the new policies that the French people chose when they elected François Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic. They will do so in the National Assembly within the newly constituted majority. They will do so in the government with an unfailing solidarity...