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...when the 13th Communist Party Congress is to meet in Peking. The current political stalemate is likely to continue until that gathering, when top party and government posts will be filled. Among the appointments will be that of a permanent successor to Hu as party General Secretary, a job Premier Zhao now holds on an acting basis...
...renowned hard charger, Jacques Chirac continues to serve as mayor of Paris as well as Premier of France. Before a crackling log fire in his spacious and opulent office in Paris' city hall, Chirac ranged over a number of domestic and foreign questions in a conversation with TIME International Editor Karsten Prager and Paris Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante last week. Excerpts from the one-hour interview...
When Jacques Chirac led his center-right coalition to victory in France's parliamentary elections a year ago, he and Socialist President Francois Mitterrand found themselves in unexplored political territory. Never before in the 28-year history of France's Fifth Republic had a Premier, or head of government, on one side of the political spectrum had to coexist with a President, or head of state, on the other. Now, halfway into the two-year experiment the French call cohabitation, Chirac, 54, has helped make the power-sharing arrangement work better than most political observers had thought possible...
Chirac is scheduled this week to make his first visit as Premier to the U.S., where he will attempt to burnish his international credentials in talks with President Reagan, Cabinet officials and Wall Street financial leaders. His basic message to Washington: that France, while approving in principle the "zero option" arms-control proposal, which calls for the removal of all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear weapons from European soil, wants to be certain the two sides also achieve parity on shorter-range nuclear missiles. Chirac is expected to renew France's commitment to the campaign against international terrorism...
...officials responsible for protocol can be thankful that state visits like Chirac's can be undertaken by either the Premier or the President -- alone. Under the unwritten rules of cohabitation, more elaborate occasions, like last year's Western economic summit in Tokyo, require the presence of both Chirac and Mitterrand. Though each scrupulously observes the courtesies due the other's office, both expect to be received in equally grand style. They usually travel aboard separate aircraft, hold separate meetings with foreign leaders and are prickly about details, right down to the seating arrangements at banquets. The two leaders have learned...