Word: quai
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three hutlike wooden crates on Le Havre's Quai de Moselle last week looked unremarkable. But when they were finally winched aboard the French freighter Borodine for a five-day trip to the Soviet port of Riga, they caused an immediate intensification of the long-running dispute between the U.S. and its Western European allies over Washington's sanctions against the Soviet natural gas pipeline. The shipment amounted to an open French challenge of the U.S. embargo: each of the crates contained a French-made and U.S.-designed compressor that will help propel Siberian gas through...
...latest targets of "revolutionary" Islamic vengeance in Iran, last week's episode came as an unexpected and brutal shock. In Paris, Socialist President François Mitterrand canceled weekend plans and closeted himself for five hours with aides to discuss the crisis. Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesmen at the Quai d'Orsay issued optimistic statements. Declared Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson...
Cheysson: No, seriously, Mr. President, it doesn't work that way in France. When I moved into the Quai d'Orsay, all the people were in place, and I just got down to work...
...been the mayor of the northern industrial city of Lille since 1973. A third possibility for Premier is Banker Jacques Delors, 55, but he has been mentioned as a more likely candidate for an economics ministry. A key member of the Mitterrand team and a candidate for the Quai D'Orsay, France's Foreign Ministry, is veteran Diplomat Claude Cheysson. As a commissioner of the European Community, Cheysson, 61, led the development of its generous trade policy toward the Third World...
...President only proves that our worries about the Administration are sound." A Foreign Minister returning from the summit meeting of the European Community cited European fears that Vance's departure would leave an opening at the top that would quickly be filled by Brzezinski, who was mistrusted. Said a Quai d'Orsay diplomat: "It's not just Brzezinski's rabidly anti-Soviet line that galled, it was his erratic personality. In negotiations, we found him intellectually undisciplined." Dominique Moïsy, an analyst at the French Institute of International Relations, observed: "Some Europeans believe that Carter and Brzezinski negatively complement each...