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| | Jacques Chirac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Chirac sought the presidency and ran against Mitterrand for a second time in 1988, but was defeated in runoff elections. | | | Chirac rose to become economy minister in the late 1960s, serving as department head and a secretary of state. | | | Chirac was then the target of various American and British commentators supporting the decisions of president Bush and prime minister Tony Blair. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac
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| | Jacques Rene Chirac Biography |
| | Chirac was elected president of France in 1995 but has spent much of his time in office attempting to assuage an angry, disillusioned electorate. | | | Chirac was elected mayor of Paris in 1977 and again elected as a member of the National Assembly. | | | Chirac ran for president in 1981 but was defeated at the time France made a political swing in the opposite direction. |
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http://www.iraqinews.com/people_chirac.shtml
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| | Jacques Chirac |
| | Chirac was the mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, and Prime Minister of France from 1974-76 and again from 1986-88. | | | Chirac is implicated in several major scandals, but as President of France he's immune from prosecution until he leaves office. | | | He was first elected President in 1997, then re-elected in 2002 with almost 82% of the vote. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/649/000023580
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| | CNN.com - Media criticizes Chirac EU appeal - Apr 15, 2005 |
| | Chirac said the treaty could not be renegotiated if voters reject it but he would not resign over the charter, on which he has staked his personal prestige. | | | PARIS, France -- French media has dismissed as unconvincing President Jacques Chirac's efforts to persuade his country to vote for the EU constitution in an upcoming referendum. | | | Meanwhile Friday, campaigners for a "no" vote accused Chirac of scaremongering by telling voters in a prime-time TV broadcast that France "could cease to exist politically" in the EU if they reject the charter on May 29. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/15/chirac.eu
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| | BBC - BBC Four Profile - Jacques Chirac |
| | Mitterand again emerged as president at the following elections, and the headstrong Chirac resigned from office. | | | As the longtime mayor of Paris, he enjoyed a day-to-day contact with the electorate that his political rivals were unable to match. | | | At his third attempt, the Bulldozer finally stormed the gates of the Elysee Palace in 1995 and became the French president. |
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http://bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/profile_jacques_chirac.shtml
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| | FrontPage magazine.com :: Chirac's War for Oil by Jamie Glazov |
| | Chirac was on the verge of being indicted by an investigative magistrate in 1999 on corruption charges. | | | I reveal that Chirac was defending something quite different when he sent his erstwhile foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, around the world to buy votes against America at the United nations. | | | It just so happens that the safe is located in the private toilet in his office. |
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13021
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| | Jacques René Chirac |
| | His failure in 2005 to win the approval of French voters for a new EU constitution was a blow to his prestige. | | | FPARIS.Jacques CHIRAC Mayor of Paris during 50th anniv of Liberation of Paris, at City Hall. | | | Chirac, Jacques René, 1932–, French political leader, president of France (1995–), b. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0811953.html
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| | Jacques Chirac |
| | In 1977 Chirac became Mayor of Paris, a post he was to hold for 18 years. | | | Chirac became prime minister in 1974 but he had a poor relationship with President | | | Later he served as Minister for Agriculture and Minister of Industry. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDchirac.htm
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| | The Chirac Doctrine - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com |
| | Entering the waning years of his career, Chirac unsurprisingly places new emphasis on his prerogatives as the maker of French foreign policy, and thus on his legacy as statesman. | | | But when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan came courting President Jacques Chirac in Paris last week, hoping the ever-reluctant French would back Turkey's bid to join the European Union, the cash-and-carry policymaking was right out front. | | | But Chirac's looking over his shoulder at the United States right now. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5505622/site/newsweek
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| | March 12, 2003 |
| | Chirac and other French politicians and political parties. | | | Based on our preliminary investigation, as well as recent press reports, there is sufficient evidence to implicate senior French political and governmental officials including, but not limited to, Mr. | | | While a 12-member French judicial commission (whose membership was chosen by Mr. |
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/cases/95/chirac.htm
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| | French corruption scandals |
| | On 21 June, during the course of a judicial investigation, we learned that Chirac probably used so-called ‘secret funds’ for personal gain between 1992-95. | | | What is new this summer is the big impact that this scandal has had on the politicians’ tactics. | | | More significant, however, is the continuing discrediting of France’s establishment politicians. |
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http://www.socialismtoday.org/59/france.html
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| | CNN.com - Chirac accepts defeat on EU vote - May 30, 2005 |
| | Before the referendum, Chirac said he would not resign if the French voted "No." But he has hinted that he might respond to calls to sack his unpopular Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and make policy changes. | | | With votes counted in all of France and its overseas territories, the "no" camp had 54.87 percent, with only 45.13 percent voting "yes," according to figures released by France's Interior Ministry. | | | In his address late Sunday, he made no mention of government sackings, but said he "intends to respond" to voters' wishes within days. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/05/29/france.eu
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| | NewsFromRussia.Com Jacques Chirac to decide on attending U.N. summit after he leaves hospital |
| | Jacques Chirac to decide on attending U.N. summit after he leaves hospital | | | Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday that his government would not take steps to oust the embattled Bank of Italy governor, who has resisted calls for his resignation following accusations of bias in a bank takeover battle More details... | | | NewsFromRussia.Com Jacques Chirac to decide on attending U.N. summit after he leaves hospital |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/09/09/62581.html
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| | BBC News EUROPE Profile: Jacques Chirac |
| | Apart from a seven-year term as head of state, he has also served twice as prime minister - the first time an astonishing 28 years ago. | | | Mr Chirac has a popular and enduring image with voters | | | Jacques Chirac is 69 and this is his fourth presidential campaign. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1899000/1899119.stm
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| | Telegraph News Chirac: 'The only thing the British have ever given European farming is mad cow' |
| | Mr Blair's relations with Mr Chirac were already at a low ebb after rows over the Common Agricultural Policy and Britain's EU rebate compounded deep disagreement over the Iraq war. | | | Mr Chirac then recalled how George Robertson, the former Nato secretary general and a former defence secretary in Tony Blair's Cabinet, had once made him try an "unappetising" Scottish dish, apparently meaning haggis. | | | Mr Blair is likely to use the Gleneagles meeting to make a fresh pitch for reform of the CAP. |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/05/wchir05.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/05/ixnewstop.html
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| | Jacques Chirac - Wikiquote |
| | Jacques René Chirac (born November 29, 1932 in Paris) is a French politician who is currently President of the French Republic. | | | As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Chirac
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| | Jacques Chirac Has Long Record of Public Service Marred by Corruption Allegations - Global Policy Forum - Nations and ... |
| | He was elected mayor of Paris in 1977 and used the highly visible office as a power base to regroup. | | | A personality clash with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing led Chirac to resign, but he quickly plotted his comeback. | | | In the 1981 and 1988 presidential elections, Chirac lost to Mitterrand, a Socialist, but his third try for France's top political prize proved the charm, and Chirac became president in 1995. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/launder/regions/2002/0504chirac.htm
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| | OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today |
| | The real question is: Will Chirac consign his country to irrelevance by using its veto and forcing America to act without U.N. approval? | | | The question is: Will Washington stand back and watch while the Chirac doctrine is pout [sic] to its first major test? | | | President Bush has given his solemn word that he will undertake regime change in Baghdad; if he collaborates with the French and fails to do so, it would make his presidency a failure, as surely as "read my lips" did for his father. |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/best?id=110002580
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| | John J. Miller & Mark Molesky on Our Oldest Enemy on National Review Online |
| | As the first anniversary of September 11 approached, Chirac tried to minimize his profound differences with the United States by relying on that old standby in the French politician's playbook: the enduring myth of Franco-American friendship. | | | He rose in the party ranks, became the minister of agriculture, and then, in 1974, prime minister. | | | At the center of this conflagration was French president Jacques Chirac. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/miller_molesky200410080842.asp
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| | Hussain Hindawi & Jacques Chirac & Saddam Hussein on National Review Online |
| | Citing mutual public declarations of admiration made by the two leaders during Chirac's 1975 trip to Baghdad as prime minister, a visit that ushered in the golden age in French-Iraqi relations. | | | At the same time, French President Jacques Chirac has consolidated his status as heir of former President Charles De Gaulle's policy of independence from the United States. | | | Opposition leaders accuse France of freely violating international law and the U.N. charter when it comes to safeguarding its interests and argue that Paris' opposition to war was solely to avert their good friend and client Saddam Hussein's ouster. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-hindawi-thomson041003b.asp
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| | BBC NEWS Europe Chirac admitted to Paris hospital |
| | The head of Mr Chirac's UMP party - his political rival Nicolas Sarkozy - said the whole party wished the president well. | | | The hospital said the president was being treated for "a minor vascular incident" that had slightly affected his eyesight. | | | French President Jacques Chirac has been admitted to hospital suffering from an eye problem. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4211240.stm
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| | Jacques Chirac, |
| | Jacques Chirac - Political Figure, born 29 November 1932, President of France, 1995-present | | | In World War II he fought with the Free... | | | Jacques Chirac en retard pour le dîner à Windsor chez la reine |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908009.html
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| | The globalophobia of Jacques Chirac |
| | If you are still in doubt whether to be in favor or against this proposed European Constitution, make no mistake: Jacques Chirac is selling this Constitution to his people as an anti-globalist, anti-anglo-saxon and anti-liberal (in the economic sense, i.e. | | | Chirac did not convince those who oppose the constitution. | | | But in selling the constitution as an antiglobalist and socialist masterpiece, it may well be that he has convinced some free-market proponents to vote against it. |
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| | Jacques Iraq aka Jacques Chirac |
| | Amir Taheri, The Chirac Doctrine: France’s Iraq-war plan, National Review, November 4, 2002. | | | Chirac is the only Western leader to have a personal knowledge of the Iraqi president. | | | When Chirac became president, he followed his avowed model, General de Gaulle, to promote Gaullist power against U.S. power and support for Arab nations against Israel. |
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http://www.lexnotes.com/misc/jacques_iraq.htm
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| | President Jacques Chirac Timeline, 21st Century |
| | Centre-right parties supporting President have won 399 of 577 seats in the second round of parliamentary elections | | | The incumbent has won about 80% of the vote. | | | President has ordered the asbestos-lined Clemenceau to return to French waters after a ruling by the highest court |
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| | Jacques Chirac as Mabus |
| | An only child and a one-time cavalry officer, Jacques Chirac earned the nickname “Le Bulldozer” for his skill at getting things done as a member of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou’s Cabinet. | | | Jacques Chirac is sometimes known as a maverick buffing world opinion with such things as Nuclear tests and other disregards for International norms. | | | During the build up before the US led attack on Iraq Jacques Chirac earned the Nickname "Le Worm" as the British newspapers flooded the French market with photographs of a worm's body and his head |
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http://www.mabus.biz/who/chirac
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| | Embassy of France in the US - France/U.S. relations |
| | Interview given to "LCI" by Dominique de Villepin, Minister of Foreign Affairs (excerpts) | | | Interview of President Jacques Chirac by the New York Times (excerpts) | | | Speech by Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic, at the US Embassy |
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http://www.info-france-usa.org/news/statmnts/2002/remembering.asp
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| | WILLisms.com: Jacques Chirac, Fin. |
| | Posted by Will Franklin · 2 June 2005 04:18 PM Comments | | | I am an arsehole that has the runs. | | | Posted by: Jacque Chirac at July 5, 2005 01:28 PM |
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http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/06/jacques_chirac.html
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| | CNN.com - Chirac: 'A lot of progress has been achieved' - Mar. 16, 2003 |
| | As the world teeters on the brink of war between the United States and its allies and Iraq, one staunch voice opposing military action has been that of French President Jacques Chirac. | | | So really it is not a question of passing a judgment on an individual, on a regime, on his dictatorship. | | | CHIRAC: The New York Times is a serious newspaper, so as soon as I read this I led an inquiry into it. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/03/16/sprj.irq.amanpour.chirac
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| | Jacques Derrida Dies; Deconstructionist Philosopher (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Jacques Derrida, 74, originator of the diabolically difficult school of philosophy known as deconstructionism, died Oct. 9, the office of French President Jacques Chirac announced. | | | French media reports said that the cause was pancreatic cancer and that he died at a Paris hospital. | | | "With him, France has given the world one of its greatest contemporary philosophers, one of the major figures of intellectual life of our time," Chirac said in a statement. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21050-2004Oct9.html
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| | Media Matters - Hume on Kerry: "He'd have to clear everything" with Jacques Chirac |
| | Kerry has neither said nor suggested that he would seek Chirac's approval of his decisions. | | | On the August 15 edition of FOX News Sunday, FOX News managing editor and chief Washington correspondent Brit Hume attempted to criticize Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry by claiming that Kerry has suggested that if elected, "he'd have to clear everything" with French President Jacques Chirac. | | | In his July 29 acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Kerry asserted, "I will never give any nation or international institution a veto over our national security." |
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| | Category:Jacques Chirac - Wikimedia Commons |
| | This page was last modified 11:08, 8 May 2005. | | | Photographies de Jacques Chirac, Président de la République française |
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| | Technorati Tag: Jacques Chirac |
| | Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. | | | Donnedieu: additionner les énergies de Chirac, Villepin et Sarkozy Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, ministre de la Culture, a affirmé dimanche, sur Radio... | | | This page shows blog posts, photos, and links that have been tagged Jacques Chirac. |
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| | Jacques Chirac |
| | Find where Jacques Chirac is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Jacques Chirac | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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| | 2010 - The Challenges to Global Security: Jacques CHIRAC |
| | Jane's Defence Weekly assembled a list of heads-of-state, UN officials, and chiefs of major non-governmental organisations and asked one broad question: What is the greatest challenge to global security in the next five to 10 years? | | | Inside job: US seeks solutions for its security jigsaw puzzle | | | 2010 - The Challenges to Global Security: Jacques CHIRAC |
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http://www.janes.com/defence/news/2010/991222_f_chirac.shtml
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| | PoliPundit.com » Jacques Chirac |
| | If you're a political junkie, get your fix here! | | | That is the lowest number recorded in modern French political polling. | | | According to a new poll, Jacques Chirac’s approval rating has fallen to: |
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http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=8010
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