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...France, nuclear power produces 65% of the country's electricity, and it is solidly backed by Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and Conservative Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. Nonetheless, the French government has been forced to admit that radiation levels from Chernobyl were much higher than originally thought, and some farmers in the eastern part of the country have had to plow under tainted lettuce and cabbage crops. On Wednesday, Paris announced that five workers at a reprocessing plant at Cap de la Hague had accidentally received from .7 to 18 rems of radiation over their bodies. Five rems a year...
...last week, their assessments of the meeting went beyond the typical rote claims of harmony. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone declared that the conference "reaffirmed mutual understanding and trust between us." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher uttered a hearty "mission accomplished." Even that perennial summit spoilsport, French President Francois Mitterrand, exulted that the meeting was "the most relaxed" he had experienced. Said the most triumphant of the summiteers, Ronald Reagan: "It's no exaggeration to describe the Tokyo summit as the most successful of the six that I have attended...
...issue of contention was whether Libya should be named directly. Mitterrand, who had denied permission for U.S. jets from Britain to overfly France on their way to Libya, did not offer the expected opposition. | "Everybody will know whom we're talking about," he said, "so why not?" Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose country has the closest economic and emotional ties to its former colony Libya, was perhaps the most reluctant to go along. While Craxi eventually conceded, his bitter pill of support was sugared by an agreement to add Italy, as well as Canada, to the regular sessions that...
...head of France's new conservative government, Premier Jacques Chirac has left no doubt about where he stands on major issues. But where does Chirac sit? For most of last week, protocol experts were trying to determine whether Chirac or President Francois Mitterrand should occupy France's seat at the opening banquet in Tokyo next month, along with President Ronald Reagan and five other leaders of the world's major industrialized countries. Both Chirac, the head of government, and Mitterrand, the head of state, will be attending the Tokyo meeting...
After much tugging of chairs, the President appears to have won. Chirac's office announced that his work load made it impossible for him to fly to Tokyo in time to attend the banquet. Instead, he will arrive in Japan the next morning. Mitterrand will be the man who comes to dinner...