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...Francois Mitterrand...
...live the King!" the royalist punks tossed tear-gas canisters and knocked mezzo-soprano Helene Delavault to the floor. "At first we thought it was part of the spectacle," said Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of the government's Bicentennial Mission. It wasn't. The singer was hospitalized, and President Mitterrand led the list of notables expressing outrage...
Some Europeans fear the rate of change in the East may outpace their ability to construct coherent policies in response. Says a senior adviser to French President Francois Mitterrand: "Eastern Europe could become a region of instability and risk." But others scent something better: the possible end to the cold war, on which virtually all East-West security planning is based. "This is the greatest opportunity the West has had to influence this region since the division of Europe after World War II," said Mark Palmer, the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and a leading advocate of Western activism. "We simply...
Bush, on his first overseas trip as U.S. chief executive, met for lunch with French President Francois Mitterrand. He also met with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita; King Hussein of Jordan; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak; Chaim Herzog, president of Israel and leaders from from Portugal and Thailand...
Tipped off by the SEC, the French Commission on Bourse Operations zeroed in on Mitterrand's friends Max Theret, 76, and Roger-Patrice Pelat, 70, who profited handsomely from purchases of Triangle stock just before the takeover became public. Because the Finance Ministry approved the deal before it was announced, the information could have leaked from the government. That possibility prompted the resignation last month of Beregovoy's chief of staff, Alain Boublil, who has denied any involvement...