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...election of President FranÇois Mitterrand last month and the subsequent success of the Socialists in National Assembly contests proved once again what students of Gallic culture have known all along: In France, politics is both passionate and unpredictable. Observes Paris Correspondent William Blaylock: "French politics plops across the ideological platter like a dropped soufflé. Candidates seem to have no shared opinions, no established rules of fair play. Nor do they seem to want any." Correspondent Sandra Burton interviewed government officials and French sociologists to assess the impact of the new administration and was struck by the blas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 29, 1981 | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller, this week's cover story culminates four years of reporting on France and the paradoxical ups and downs of Mitterrand's career. Says Muller. I arrived just as the Socialist-Communist alliance engineered by Mitterrand was breaking up. I am leaving just as his star reaches its apex " Muller, who is moving to New York as an associate editor, will be replaced by Jordan Bonfante. no stranger to Europe's ways. Bonfante was a LIFE correspondent in both Paris and London and served as TIME's Rome bureau chief from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 29, 1981 | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...Etudes Politiques, "a useful prelude to the crash course that French voters have just given us." Associate Editor Thomas A. Sancton, who wrote the cover story, spent five years in Paris, working as a freelance journalist and completing a doctorate in French history. Sums up Historian Sancton: "I see Mitterrand in the tradition of 19th century socialist reformers, neither Marxist nor revolutionary, who sought to make égalité a real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 29, 1981 | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...sortie rankled European governments as well. Most ruffled were the French, who supplied the Iraqis with the reactor, who lost a technician as the only reported casualty of the raid and whose newly elected Socialist President, François Mitterrand, had declared his willingness to strengthen ties with Israel. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "I am saddened. This government has a great deal of sympathy for Israel, but we don't think such action serves the cause of peace in the area." In her typically blunt fashion, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher summed up the view of many others: "Armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack - and Fallout: Israel and Iraq | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...raid's postponements. Peres had learned that the attack was scheduled for May 10, the date of the deciding round of French presidential elections. As a "supreme civic duty," he warned Begin not to go ahead. Peres felt, correctly, as it happened, that Socialist François Mitterrand would win, and that there were signs that the new French President would do everything possible to "make the Iraqi reactor impotent, militarily." Peres also warned Begin that the raid would leave Israel as isolated "as a lonely shrub in the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack - and Fallout: Israel and Iraq | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

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