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- May 07, 1990: French Cuffs
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 07, 1990 Dirty Words
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 27
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> FRENCH CUFFS. The Florida meeting between George Bush and
- Francois Mitterrand was not as sunny as participants pretended.
- Behind the scenes, French officials had been scoffing at
- American hopes of basing Europe's future security on NATO. "You
- talk about a new NATO mission," said a senior diplomat, "but the
- U.S. no longer even understands the aim of NATO." However, the
- cuffs that really irked Bush were from Jacques Attali,
- Mitterrand's national security adviser, who in a new book
- published in France trashes the U.S. as a hopelessly declining
- power. The best revenge may be...revenge. France wants
- Attali to head the new European Bank for Reconstruction and
- Development; the U.S. will oppose the appointment.
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