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...usually opposed military interventions in Africa, and they now find it awkward to have changed their position. French rightists also find themselves in a paradoxical position, reluctant to condemn an intervention that is in line with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre" outburst was meant mainly for home consumption, as a ploy to retain the support of Communists...
...Harvard authors recommend that the U.S. work harder in areas of arms control that now seem of lesser impor tance but that may turn into hotbeds of U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition. One important example: an attempt to prevent the development of antisatellite weapon ry, which ultimately threatens the communication between the superpowers and their deterrent forces. Strengthening of that communications network, they say, should be among the top U.S. defense priorities. The Harvard authors oppose the development of the B-1 bomber and have reservations about the deployment of sub marine-launched nuclear cruise missiles. But they support the Stealth...
...students have any real link with the merchants, doctors and farmers. Says Charles Millon, a leader of the Union pour la Démocratic Française, founded by former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "What is going on is an expression of corporatist, or special interest, discontent in French society." So far, the mood has translated into a bewildering checkerboard of largely middle-class protest. Hospital interns and senior clinic physicians struck nationwide for five weeks, protesting a government plan that would reduce their chances for promotion. University students are objecting to a sweeping plan, drawn...
...dimensions of the Soviet espionage effort in Western Europe. More than three months ago, French President François Mitterrand had been given a report by his Interior Ministry on the intensifying activities of the Soviet spy network in France. Mitterrand could have responded like his predecessor, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, with traditional French diplomatic discretion, by quietly declaring a few of the more fla grant Soviet offenders personae non gratae. Instead, in a move unprecedented for France, the President ordered the expulsion last week of 47 Soviet diplomats and other officials along with their families...
...penalty for being caught with more: confiscation of the money plus a maximum fine of five times that amount. Complicating matters, personal credit cards issued in France may no longer be used abroad. Said Jean-François Deniau, who was Foreign Trade Minister under former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing: "We are condemned to spend our vacations in the countryside with Grandmother." Particularly ironic was the fact that shortly after his election, Mitterrand fulfilled a campaign promise by adding a fifth week of vacation...