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...usually pro-Mitterrand Paris daily Le Monde and other papers zeroed in on the culpability of the government in the mysterious act of sabotage, the President could no longer remain aloof from what was rapidly becoming one of France's worst political crises in the four years since the Socialist Party swept to power...
...accused Mitterrand either of conducting a deceitful cover-up or of ignorance of his own government's secret-service operations. With crucial legislative elections only six months away, the President could not afford to see his moral authority jeopardized in the eyes of an electorate already largely disenchanted with Socialist leadership. As Mitterrand attempted to defuse the Greenpeace scandal, his Defense Minister, + Charles Hernu, resigned, a tacit admission of French wrongdoing in the affair. Paul Quiles, a Mitterrand loyalist who had been Minister of Town Planning, Housing and Transport, was quickly named to replace him. In addition, Vice Admiral Pierre...
...crisis was a bruising political setback for Mitterrand. And Hernu was a special loss. The 62-year-old former magistrate is a longtime confidant of the President's. Hernu almost single-handedly persuaded the Socialist Party in 1976 to support the French nuclear force de frappe, which it had officially opposed for six years. The Defense Minister personified the promilitary, antipacifist and Western-oriented thinking of the Mitterrand regime. He was also highly popular with France's armed forces. One opposition leader admitted that Hernu was "the only Socialist minister who should be kept in a new administration...
Almost until the moment the scandal exploded last week, Mitterrand's government clung to the findings of the Tricot report. But doubts were already growing within the Cabinet and the Socialist Party. Le Monde, among others, charged that the true saboteurs of the Rainbow Warrior were neither the jailed pair of French agents nor the three-man crew of the spy yacht Ouvea, which allegedly had been sent from the French territory of New Caledonia to back up the operation. The real hitmen, claimed Le Monde, were two unidentified frogmen, probably from France's underwater demolition training base in Corsica...
...party and government bureaucrats replaced by technocrats. Deng's innovations, rooted in the premise of "building socialism with Chinese characteristics," have stirred apprehension among China's Old Guard that the Communist Party's dominance could eventually be endangered. How much ideology can a country shed and still be considered socialist, they ask, and how much economic liberalization can be permitted before pressures for greater political freedom arise...