Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, France's leading Communist was every bit as anxious to avoid Brezhnev as Chirac, its leading antiCommunist, was to receive him. The French party boss, Georges Marchais, striving to burnish his image as a moderate Eurocommunist, announced that he "did not need to see Brezhnev every time he...
If Leonid Brezhnev in Paris grumbled about the U.S., that was nothing compared with the tongue-lashing administered by the Kremlin to fellow Communists in Western Europe. An unsigned 5,000-word article in New Times -a Soviet weekly devoted primarily to foreign affairs-savaged Spanish Communist Party Leader Santiago...
France, which once ruled nearly half of Africa, gave up its last formal foothold on the continent this week. At a Sunday midnight ceremony in the decaying Red Sea city of Djibouti, a new flag of blue, green, white and red replaced the French Tricolor atop a floodlit pole at...
Paris currently pours about $140 million a year into Djibouti, but most of this aid is in the form of vastly inflated salaries or perks for French soldiers and civil servants. Fully 80% of that money is ultimately re-exported to European bank accounts. The territory's operating budget...
Weary Sigh. The nature of the French postindependence presence in Djibouti awaits negotiation between Paris and the infant republic's new President, Hassan Gouled, 61, a veteran politician who agitated for Djibouti's independence for nearly 30 years. Now that it is here, he does not seem very...