Word: mitterrand
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...talks covered a wide array of subjects, ranging from Poland to the Middle East to the Third World. Still stung by Giscard's defeat, Schmidt predicted that incoming President François Mitterrand's economic program would quickly pose problems for France. Yet Schmidt also stressed that the new French leader should be welcomed into the Western alliance, and he offered to stop in Paris on his way home to deliver greetings from Reagan to Mitterrand. The offer was quickly accepted...
...time, I would write the history of the rivers I have known." Journalist Paul Guimard calls him "a great writer." Literary Critic Bertrand Poirot-Delpech rates him with Léon Blum and De Gaulle as the most literary of French politicians: "Each phrase of Mitterrand, even spoken, bears the mark of someone who has never ceased to read the great writers, to scribble, to scratch out and, in short, to dream with words...
Though he does not enjoy the Paris cocktail-party circuit, Mitterrand likes to dine with such old Socialist comrades as Claude Estier, Louis Mermaz and Pierre Joxe. Other close friends include a businessman from his native region and the owner of a taxi fleet. He is seen from time to time in Left Bank restaurants with one or another of the attractive young women whose company he enjoys. But he is also a family man who spends most weekends with his wife, visiting friends or staying in his converted sheep barn in southwestern France...
...leaders have been fairly warned. If there is any discernible mood sweeping the Continent, it is an indiscriminate, throw-the-rascals-out rejection of the status quo. On the same day that Valéry Discard d'Estaing was losing the French presidency to Socialist François Mitterrand, West Berlin voters were giving a similar demonstration of discontent with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats, who had ruled the divided city for 26 years. Tainted by corruption, the city's Social Democratic Party polled a meager 38.4%, its worst postwar score, and down more...
...love Paris in the springtime"-or summer, or fall. Reason: the dollar is back in grace. The exchange rate has improved 31% since a year ago, making U.S. purchasing power greater than it has been since 1969; and last week's election victory by François Mitterrand's Socialist Party gave the rate another jolt by further weakening the franc (see WORLD). Tourists have been quick to capitalize on the change. Despite stiff increases in transatlantic airfares, advance bookings from New York City to Paris...