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...first love. Everyone can recall the earliest flutter of the heart, even (or especially?) French Presidents. "I disappeared each day between the noon and evening meals . . . waiting long hours ((for her)) hidden behind a sand dune," writes Francois Mitterrand about the first time he was smitten, at 15. Mitterrand's poignant reminiscence of pursuing -- and failing to catch -- an unnamed girl during a family vacation in Belgium appears in Their Very First Time, which goes on sale in France this week. The volume includes the romantic flashbacks of 95 other notables, including generals, civil servants and a race-car driver...
...world was almost deprived of Mitterrand's tender musings. Though he agreed last spring to write about the cherished moment, he did the writerly thing and missed his deadline; 25,000 copies of the book were printed without his entry. At the last minute, Mitterrand came through with two pages of text, which were inserted into 50,000 additional copies. Love conquers all, even blown deadlines...
...outset of the parliamentary election campaign, Mitterrand had tried to explain his "political opening" by saying that "it is not healthy to have a country governed by just one party. There should be other political families taking part in government." But less than two weeks later, the President was pleading for a Socialist majority. What had changed? The emergence, said Mitterrand, of a new threat to the "values of freedom, equality and respect for others." That danger, suggested the President, was implicit in the electoral deal struck in Marseilles between the xenophobic National Front and the mainstream conservative alliance...
With Iraq on the offensive, morale in Iran is sagging. -- Arafat gets a boost at the Arab summit. -- The French send Mitterrand a message...
...stability and prosperity of the global economy. The President will travel to Toronto on June 19 for the annual economic summit with the other leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations: Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Japan's Noboru Takeshita, West Germany's Helmut Kohl, France's Franois Mitterrand, Italy's Ciriaco De Mita and the host, Canada's Brian Mulroney. Inside the Metro Toronto Convention Center, the leaders will discuss such major problems as trade imbalances, protectionism and Third World debt...