Francois Mitterrand

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French statesman and president of France from 1981 to 1985 (1916-1996)

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He said that leadership of Socialist Party always had very strong support for democracy in Pakistan and even former President Mitterrand visited Pakistan during the tenure of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
Le president Mitterrand par exemple a vecu 14 ans avec son cancer de prostate.
In fact, according to declassified French documents, former French president Mitterrand actually supported the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, despite clear warnings that mass killings of the Tutsi population were being orchestrated,
In addition, President Chirac was rumoured to have an illegitimate child with a Japanese woman, but this was never confirmed; also, President Mitterrand denied having an illegitimate daughter for years, but then admitted in 1984 that Mazarine is his daughter.
Openly gay FrE[umlaut]dE[umlaut]ric Mitterrand, the nephew of the late President Mitterrand, is presently struggling to save his name amid the storm over his past accounts of paying "boys" for sex, reports The Times.
At a G7 summit when both are quite new to office, French President Mitterrand (Philippe Magnan) overcomes the initial distrust of Ronald Reagan (Fred Ward) by passing the information along, thereby starting in motion revelations that enabled Reagan to gain the upper hand over Gorbachev's USSR.
In fact, ever since President Mitterrand tried broad nationalisations in the early 1980s with catastrophic results, France, like most of Europe, has been on a steady march toward freer markets, trade and competition.
Within a year, Shi had been pardoned by President Mitterrand and allowed to remain in Paris, where he resumed his career as an opera singer and enjoyed his notoriety.
Supporters have always portrayed the famous 1984 Fontainebleau summit as her greatest triumph, with Thatcher "handbagging" France's President Mitterrand and other EU politicians into submission.
Many French it seems preferred the old ways when the likes of President Mitterrand could actually keep a mistress and their illegitimate child in the presidential palace while he lived in the front of the house with his Mrs without the media breathing a word till he'd been buried.
THE eldest son of late French President Mitterrand was taken into police custody today for questioning in a money laundering inquiry.
When the late President Mitterrand visited Uzbekistan in April 1994, most of these industrialists were in his delegation, including the CEOs of Elf, Total, GdF, Bouygues, etc.
President Mitterrand of France, a renowned womaniser, noted how Mrs Thatcher had 'the eyes of Caligula but the mouth of Marilyn Monroe'.
Given the corruption scandals involving the grand old men of Europe--former chancellor Kohl and French President Mitterrand, not to mention former EU President Jacques Santer--the gang of 25 have written off the old guard.
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