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...that was before a row within the government exploded Wednesday, when junior environment Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet to call fellow conservatives "an army of cowards" after a cock-up involving controversial legislation on genetically modified crops. Kosciusko-Morizet told Le Monde that her immediate boss, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, and parliamentary leader of her own conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Jean-François Copé, had engaged in "a contest of cowardice and inelegance" in cynically refusing to back her up in a tight spot for their own political gain. The spectacle of a cabinet member publicly...
...Outrage at the attack led Prime Minister François Fillon to order Kosciusko-Morizet to issue a public apology for the outburst or be fired if she refused to. Kosciusko-Morizet knuckled under on Wednesday night, though subsequent comments suggested her regret was less than entirely sincere. Other conservatives involved in the melee implied they, too, were neither ready to forgive nor forget. That's bad news for UMP forces...
...invasion of Grenada has brought to the forefront the necessity to redefine some terms in international law." Green and other experts are afraid that current readings of international law fail to take account of the many acts of indirect aggression that increasingly shape world politics. Says Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, a former French Ambassador...
...weaker and more discredited than at any other time I can recall. No one really takes the U.N. seriously." Nonetheless, Kosciusko-Morizet stubbornly defends the international organization in its latest period of trial. "There are a lot of steps the U.S. could take," he says, "between threatening pullout and letting Israel be expelled...
Other U.S. allies echo Kosciusko-Morizet's view that the organization, no matter how troubled it may be, still serves a purpose. Says a Bonn-based diplomat: "We do not underestimate the U.N.'s value as a peace-keeping force. We would not have had 30 years of peace in [Western Europe] without the U.N." British officials, who strongly agree with the Reagan Administration that U.N. agencies have become far too infected with Third World politics, particularly over the Arab-Israeli issue, feel that the U.N. remains a valuable diplomatic umbrella...