CHAMONIX, FRANCE 28 DEC 94 French
Prime Minister Edouard Balladur reads a newspaper in his provincial
home in Chamonix in the French Alp December 28. Balladur returned to
Chamonix to continue his Christmas vacation which was interrupted by
the recent Air France hostage drama. mal/Robert Pratta REUTER |
BRUSSELS 29 NOV 94 European
Commission President Jacques Delors, speaking at a press conference
November 29 after Norway voted against E membership, expresses his
disappointment with the results. Delors noted that Norway continued to
have close links with the Union through the European Economic Area.
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AIN DEMOUCHENT ALGERIA Uniformed French
President Charles de Gaulle (C) is surrounded by a large crowd at Ain
Demouchent, Algeria after his arrival on December 9, 1960. December
5, 1994. nss/FILES BETTMANN-UPI |
PARIS, FRANCE 30 SEP 94 Former French socialist Prime
Minister Laurent Fabius speaks to newsmen after being placed under
investigation for being an accomplice to poisoning in a test of whether
the government can be blamed for AIDS- tainted blood transfusions.
Judges ordered Fabius to be probed over his role in the 1985 scandal
in which half of France's 2,500 haemophiliacs were infected.
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CHATEAU-CHINON, FRANCE 28 JAN 95 French
President Francois Mitterrand (R), and his wife Daniele, chat with
would-be socialist party presidential candidate Lionel Jospin (L), as he
presides over a banquet in the central French town of Chateau-Chinon,
January 28. The luncheon was attended by the top Socialist Party
members who brought him to power in 1981 and which is now crippled
by internal strife gw/Robert Pratta REUTER |
NANTES, FRANCE 04 APR 95 Lionel
Jospin, socialist presidential candidate for the upcoming French
elections, greets a foundry worker wearing a protective hood, during
his visit at the Bouhyer factory in Ancenis near Nantes, as part of his
campaign trip to Brittany, April 4. Jospin is placed second behind RPR
candidate Chirac in the opinion pools. jna/Photo by Daniel Joubert
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