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	LEAD STORY Divided We Stand: A defiant Jacques Chirac leads European opposition to war in Iraq, but his stance has alienated allies and thrown NATO into crisis 'France Is Not a Pacifist Country': Monsieur le President tells TIME's James Graff and Bruce Crumley of his objection to war and his love of American junk food Foreign Affairs: He may be shy of using force in Iraq, but the French President is no stranger to conflict Friend or Faux?: Americans feel betrayed by French attempts to stop a war against Iraq, says Jake Tapper Collateral Damage Schröder's antiwar policy has ruptured Germany's historic alliance with the U.S. Voting With Their Feet: In capital cities across the globe, unprecedented millions march against war in Iraq Table of Contents The complete list of stories from the Feb 24, 2003, issue of TIME magazine Subscribe to TIME

	A Week in Hell At the precipice of war, facing mutiny at home, Tony Blair stays cool

	Taking a Stand on Stage This season there's no avoiding the theater of war

	Don't Oust Saddam U.S. diplomat warns his former bosses

	Room to Turn? Turkey's parliament may still allow in U.S. troops

	Conflicted George Bush's European allies swim against antiwar opinion

	Family Feud France urges new Europeans to toe the old line

	French Resistance Chirac says non to U.S. plans for a war to disarm Iraq


War Torn The new gulf between European. leaders and their people 6 Reasons America's allies want Bush to slow down the war machine Mad at America Can the Transatlatic alliance survive? Collision Course Germany attacks the U.S. line on Iraq Don't Mention the War Josef Joffe on Schröder's flirtation with the pacifist lobby Yankee Stay Home! The U.S. gears up for war on Iraq, but Europeans may not follow

Why France is Different France's ideologies are moving with the times




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Chirac's Foreign Affairs

	He may be shy of using force in Iraq, but the French President is no stranger to conflict
	By J.F.O McALLISTER

1975
The then French Prime Minister oversees a deal to build the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq — dubbed Ochirac in honor of his close involvement in negotiations.

June 1995
After 18 years as mayor of Paris, newly-elected President Chirac tunes up France's own force de frappe by resuming nuclear tests in the South Pacific. After fierce condemnation at home and abroad, Chirac terminates the testing ahead of schedule.

June 1995
Putting France at the forefront of efforts to halt Serb aggression, Chirac launches the Franco-British Rapid Reaction Force to help break up the military and diplomatic logjam in Bosnia.

December 1995
In a surprise move, Chirac (a.k.a. "Chameleon Bonaparte") brings France back into the NATO military fold, 30 years after de Gaulle withdrew from the alliance's integrated command.

1999
French planes make up the second-largest force in NATO's bombing campaign begun in March over Kosovo, with French soldiers joining British and German troops in June as the advance guard of the NATO-led peacekeeping force, KFOR.

September 2001
Chirac glad-hands New York fire fighters as the first world leader to visit President Bush after Sept. 11, and calls for a united front against global terrorism



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