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- WORLD, Page 47World NotesFRANCEThe Gaul Of It All
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- Since taking office last month as France's first female Prime
- Minister, Edith Cresson has managed to incite fury abroad with
- her biting bouche. Shortly after her appointment, she declared
- on television that Japan was an "aggressor" that "lived in a
- universe different from ours, a universe of domination." The
- remarks prompted the Japanese Foreign Ministry to lodge a
- complaint with the French ambassador, and sparked protests
- outside the French embassy in Tokyo.
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- Last week Cresson drew fire again, this time for saying
- that Frenchmen are more interested in women than are men in the
- U.S., Germany and Britain -- where, she contended, a quarter of
- the males are homosexual. When these allegations, made in a
- 1987 interview for a book about women, were published in
- Britain's Sunday Observer, Cresson, 57, claimed that it was "not
- fair play" to pull an old conversation "out of a drawer."
- Throughout England, stiff upper lips quivered. "They don't call
- Paris `Gay Paree' for nothing, you know," retorted the tabloid
- Sun.
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