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Europe desperately needs a statesman like François Mitterrand [WORLD, April 2] to help ensure peace and a strong economy. He is firm in his policies toward the East bloc countries, yet recognizes the importance of a strong European Community. He is the only Socialist I admire...
...French left elected a Socialist President in May 1981, only to discover that Mitterrand is neither a Marxist...
...region, and he made a point of promising a new high-speed rail line through Lorraine into West Germany. The workers at the barricades were unimpressed. "There have been so many such plans announced in the past that people just don't believe them any more," said a Socialist worker...
...Salvador. He says that without American support the government that is providing all this stability would collapse. He suggests that this would result in "Marxist domination" of El Salvador. In the first place, this is an example of falling prey to the standard right wing flaw of seeing all Socialist groups as monolithic supporters of the Kremlin. Governments usually do not turn to the Soviets out of choice, but out of necessity. While America provided some support to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, its indifference (and now active opposition) has pushed Nicaragua toward the Soviet camp...
Mitterrand's troubles can be traced to the economic austerity program he launched in 1982. During his first year in office, the Socialist President nationalized a flock of industries and tried to spend the country out of recession, but a sagging franc and surging inflation persuaded Mitterrand to return to the more cautious policies of his conservative predecessor, Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Under the direction of Finance Minister Jacques Delors, the Socialist government experimented with wage and price controls, cut spending and instituted an ambitious "industrial restructuring" that could over the next four years lead to the layoff...