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Ortega received cordial but noncommittal welcomes at subsequent stops. In Paris he met with President Francois Mitterrand, after which Spokesman Michel Vauzelle said that France "can develop its commercial exchanges" with Nicaragua. But other officials suggested that France, which already runs a $7 million trade deficit with Nicaragua, was not anxious to increase it. In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Benedetto ("Bettino") Craxi agreed to maintain Italy's current $70 million combination of aid and trade with Managua...
...France, V-E day was a holiday, but in many respects it seemed business as usual. President Francois Mitterrand, a former Resistance fighter, reviewed troops in a brief ceremony and placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. He also sent a message to the Soviet Union in which he said that "the French have not forgotten the sacrifices of the Soviet people" in the battle against fascism...
More impartial witnesses gave his trip mixed reviews. The Bonn economic summit ended in disappointment when French President Francois Mitterrand refused to join the other leaders in agreeing to a new round of trade talks. Reagan managed to defuse the Bitburg uproar, but the incident nevertheless left a sour taste. By and large, however, Reagan handled his diplomatic duties with sensitivity and skill. Whether they liked him or not, Europeans could no longer dismiss him as an unschooled cowboy, as they did a few short years...
That is not necessarily a crushing setback for the global economy, nor does it indicate a sudden decline in Reagan's persuasive powers. Mitterrand probably was at least partly playing to the potent French farm vote in preparation for parliamentary elections next year, and it would be useless for any non-French politician to try to talk him out of that. All the same, the impasse raises a disquieting question about economic summits. One of the original reasons for holding the meetings was supposed to be that the problems of coordinating an interdependent global economy were too important...
...main business Friday night and Saturday, however, was the futile effort to persuade Mitterrand to accept a trade conference in early 1986. Canada's Mulroney drafted a set of proposals for what such a conference would discuss; it was intended to assure the French President that agriculture would not dominate the talks. The sherpas, meeting all night, worked out five or six formulations to the same effect. Mitterrand agreed to communique language that made no mention of any link between trade and monetary conferences, but nothing could get him to set a date for the trade discussions. The French President...