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...President Clinton has 180 days to find a solution. His priority, says Sancton, will be to avoid a shouting match with America's allies ? in which the only real winner would be Iran...
Under the D'Amato Act, the U.S. is obliged to sanction Total. But according to TIME Paris Bureau Chief Tom Sancton, that particular piece of legislation won't wash in Europe: "The French in particular totally reject the legitimacy and the legality of the D?Amato Act," says Sancton. "This is not simply Paris goading Washington or testing U.S. resolve. The French genuinely believe this legislation compromises their economic interests ? and with a really huge oil field at stake, they have the incentive to challenge...
...THOMAS SANCTON, our Paris bureau chief, has been piecing together the whereabouts of Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel deputy security chief, in the hours before Paul took the wheel of the car in which he, Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were killed. Sancton and his staff interviewed dozens of people, from Paul's tennis partner to bartenders to reluctant employees at the Ritz. This week, teaming up with the CNN/TIME Impact show, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. E.T., Sancton spoke with an eyewitness who comforted injured bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones and made the first emergency call to police. Says...
PARIS: The bodyguard has spoken, and investigators have learned almost nothing new. Trevor Rees-Jones underwent 20 minutes of questioning about the fatal car crash by investigating judge Herve Stephan, and the results were not encouraging. "He remembers nothing about the accident," reports TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. "He does remember the final moments before leaving the Ritz and remembers getting into the car. He also told the judge that Henri Paul seemed to be in a perfectly normal state before taking the wheel. But when asked for details about the moments leading up to the accident itself...
PARIS: Chirac's decision to dissolve the National Assembly and call for early elections proved to be an enormous blunder, one which will severely weaken his administration and most likely shift the balance of power towards the new Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin. But Paris Bureau Chief Sancton says that the powers vested in the French presidency will allow Chirac to maintain significant influence. "You hear people talking about him as a lame duck, but under the French Republic, the President has certain reserved powers, areas in which he is preeminent. These include foreign policy, security policy and diplomacy...