Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came French President Francois Mitterrand and representatives of the rival branches of Picasso's family, which consisted of two wives, four mistresses, one legitimate son and three illegitimate children, including Jewelry Designer Paloma Picasso. Given the artist, a controversy about invitations was inevitable. In a country now governed by Socialists, it was arranged that every Socialist worth his card be put on the VIP list, while some members of other political groups almost had % to beg at the door. Christiane Schwartzbard, a Communist member of the Paris city council, bitterly complained about having been overlooked, tartly observing that Picasso himself...
...worst political crisis to hit the four-year-old government of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand seemed to be turning into a nightmare. For weeks French officials had denied charges that the Paris government was directly involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmental movement, in Auckland, New Zealand, last July 10. Nonetheless, a police investigation in New Zealand and a stream of press revelations in France steadily increased suspicions that Mitterrand and his advisers had indeed played a role in the affair. Early last week, after forcing the resignations of France's Defense Minister...
...Premier's admission further aroused public indignation. Three days later, Fabius again went before TV cameras to answer the explosive question: Who had actually ordered the attack that caused the death of a Greenpeace photographer, provoked a diplomatic crisis with New Zealand and tarnished the moral authority of the Socialist government? The answer, according to Fabius, was former Defense Minister Charles Hernu, who had resigned five days before, and Vice Admiral Pierre Lacoste, the cashiered intelligence chief. "It is at their level that I place the responsibility," Fabius declared...
...destroy the intelligence services. I have now sealed off those services. From now on, anything you hear in the press does not come from intelligence agents." That suggested, as both Fabius and Hernu have hinted before, that the DGSE operation ordered against Greenpeace might have been sabotaged by anti-Socialist elements within the intelligence services in order to embarrass the government...
...good dose of macabre humor from the dreariness of this household and the deluded egotism of its inhabitants. Jasper's manner as a public speaker, seen through the clammy mist of Alice's adoration, yields an acid portrait: "His style was to use the familiar phrases of the socialist ) lexicon, but as though he had only just that moment discovered them, so that when he began, there was often a moment when people showed a tendency to laugh." But it becomes increasingly difficult to care about Alice and her confederates. They are looking for trouble, and the novel shows them...