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...major Western powers, which have long hustled to sell their arms to the world, are now competing to peddle their visions for weapons control. French President Francois Mitterrand last week moved to upstage President Bush's recent proposal for containing the Middle East arms race with a plan covering the whole globe...
...Soviet Union and China have not even agreed to attend the Paris meeting. Beijing has repeatedly refused to take part in existing international controls on the transfer of missile technology and insists its own sales are always responsible. Meanwhile, French President Francois Mitterrand and British Prime Minister John Major were planning to announce their own proposals...
...French have always likened their republic to an imaginary woman, Marianne, but have never allowed a real one to govern it. Last week, in a bold attempt to revive France's sluggish economy and give new zest to his flagging Socialist regime, President Francois Mitterrand named longtime political associate Edith Cresson, 57, an aggressive booster of French industry, as the nation's first woman Prime Minister...
...Mitterrand's Iron Lady," as the French press has dubbed her, replaces Michel Rocard, 60, whose three-year-old government was having increasing trouble piecing together parliamentary majorities even as it battled a burgeoning campaign-finance scandal. The unenviable task of damage control now falls on Cresson, leaving Rocard free to pursue his 1995 presidential ambitions...
French President Francois Mitterrand dispatched his Secretary of State for Humanitarian Action, Bernard Kouchner, to northern Iraq to distribute two planeloads of relief supplies. Asked what would happen if Baghdad objected to Kouchner's dropping in uninvited, Foreign Minister Roland Dumas replied, * "Although one must abide by international obligations, sometimes it is necessary to violate international...