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Article: Ailing Mitterrand Shapes the Future - and the Past
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- The Washington Post
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- September 9, 1994
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Eight months before he is scheduled to leave the Elysee Palace,
an end-of-term mood is rapidly engulfing the presidency of Francois
Mitterrand, leaving French voters perplexed and agitated about
whether they will have to choose his successor sooner than expected.
As he recovers from his second operation for prostate cancer
and undergoes debilitating chemotherapy treatment, Mitterrand
appears to be paying closer attention to squaring his accounts
rather than tending affairs of state. Close friends say he seems
consumed by a quest to settle old scores, burnish his place in
history and stake out the country's future path before his resources
are exhausted
In an interview with the ...