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Fri 03 Mar 2009France sees new opportunities to promote 'European defence'
With Nato bogged down in Afghanistan and unable to intervene in other theatres, the French see a new opening, writes LARA MARLOWEin Paris
FORTY-THREE years ago tomorrow, French president Charles de Gaulle lobbed a bombshell in the form of a polite, five-paragraph letter to his US counterpart, Lyndon Johnson.
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