France - Mitterrand Steps Down - Backgrounder

(17 May 1995) T/I: 10:01:54 10:19:50

Francois Mitterrand, who on Wednesday (17/5) steps down after 14
years as the president of France, alternated between being the
most popular, or unpopular, modern leader of his country.


SHOWS:

PARIS, FRANCE, 10.5.81
socialist supporters watch the mitterrand motorcade
mitterrand waves
mitterrand shakes hands with outgoing president giscard d'estaing

PARIS FRANCE, 6/9/92 mitterrand leaves hospital
talks to press saying that his operation for prostate cancer went
well: "It didn't affect my head, I was not operated at that end."

PARIS, FRANCE 20/9/92
exterior polling station
c/u ballot papers
mitterrand voting on maastricht referendum
exteriors of elysee palace
mitterrand on television later that night saying "this is the most
important day in the history of france."

MOSCOW, RUSSIA 16/03/93
yeltsin walking towards mitterrand
yeltsin and mitterrand shaking hands
vs ceremony
w/s mitterrand and yeltsin
c/u mitterrand and yeltsin

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY 8/6/94
german chancellor helmut kohl walking with mitterrand in crowd
press cutaway
kohl and mitterrand strolling down lane in heidelberg

CALAIS, FRANCE 6/5/94
w/s of eurostar platform in calais with officals waiting
vs w/s eurostar trains (one from london, one from paris)
queen and mitterrand walking towards ribbon
ceremonial ribbon cutting by the queen of england
c/u queen cutting ribbon
m/s queen and mitterrand

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