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Last week two French magazines accused the terrorists of being French government agents. VSD and L'Evénement du Jeudi charged that agents of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), France's CIA, had arranged the sabotage of the Greenpeace vessel. The accusation brought an immediate response from President François Mitterrand, who dispatched a letter to Lange. "The information that has been sent to us leads us to think that a link may exist between the French service and two persons implicated by New Zealand authorities in the affair of the Rainbow Warrior...
...slender dancer in a black leotard presses the heel of her angularly flexed foot onto the hardwood stage before moving into an elegant enchaînement. This juxtaposition of elements of modern dance and classical ballet is the essence of Then, Here & Now, José Mateo’s new ballet program playing at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church across the street from Pennypacker Hall...
...Chirac, running in his fourth presidential election, is blocking their ascent. Jospin's coalition is creaking at the seams as voters desert the communists and the greens squabble. The sense of déja vu is intensified by the next two candidates. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, third in the polls, draws support from a backward-looking array of old socialists and nationalists. The leader of the extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ranks fourth, was first elected to parliament in 1956. Le Pen is trailed closely in the polls by Arlette Laguiller...
...Conservative detractors like Nicole Ameline, spokeswoman for the centrist Liberal Democracy Party, argued the bill legitimizes "violence as a means of gaining political recognition." Other rightists condemned it as "preparing independence." The loudest protests came from Jospin's own leftist majority. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement - who resigned last year in protest against Jospin's plans - decried the bill, asking, "Who is so naive to believe that whatever is granted to Corsicans today won't also be demanded tomorrow by the Basques, Bretons, Savoyards?" Similar misgivings were privately voiced by other leftists, but the shorter-term priorities...
...argument focused on electoral tactics as much as ideology. "It is in not being faithful to these [Socialist] values that we have suffered," declared Education Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of the party's left-wing faction. Rocard attacked the government and the party for attempting to push through educational reforms that would have extended state authority over private schools. After more than a million people protested in Paris this past fall, the Socialists scrapped the plan and settled for a series of piecemeal measures. "How could we have failed to see that the real challenge before...