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...Reagan Administration last week could not be fairly accused of ignoring foreign affairs. Vice President George Bush was in Paris, where he held what he called "warm and friendly" talks with France's new Socialist President Francois Mitterrand (see WORLD). Secretary of State Alexander Haig returned to Washington after a two-week trip that included stops in Peking, Manila and Wellington, New Zealand, where he sought to solidify America's ties with its allies in the Pacific. Special Envoy Philip Habib was still shuttling in the Middle East. At home, however, a honeymoon tolerance of the Administration...
Opposition to the theocracy desired by the Muslim fundamentalists is currently being led by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (People's Crusaders), a clandestine Islamic socialist party that commands some 100,000 armed urban guerrillas. Supporters of Banisadr, the Mujahedin reacted to the President's ouster by engaging Khomeini's armed zealots, the Hezbollahis (Members of God's Party), in bloody street fighting in Tehran and other cities, killing 25 and wounding several hundred...
Finally, the Communists were too feeble to cause Mitterrand any domestic problems. Nothing illustrated that weakness more strikingly than their endorsement last week of a joint political platform supporting all the key Socialist positions on domestic and foreign policy. Many of its planks, such as those on Afghanistan and Poland, reversed the Communists' traditional pro-Moscow line. On the issue of Euromissiles, the Communists were led for the first time to support a specific call for a negotiated reduction of Soviet SS-20s in Eastern Europe...
...accepted into the Socialist Cabinet, the Communists not only had to pledge themselves to support Mitterrand's program and pace, but they had to disavow a number of their basic foreign policy positions. Key quotes from the agreement with the Socialists...
...while attending a teachers' college, he became national secretary of France's socialist youth organization. In 1963, with a dislike of ideological hairsplitting and a talent for creating unity, he became a member of his party's executive board. By then he had also built a power base in the labor unions...