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To: michael97123 who wrote (83333)3/18/2003 12:12:16 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 281500
 
De Gaulle did great things, yes, but he was prone to behaving in a contrarian way to make the point that France was still to be reckoned with. Notably, he pulled France out of NATO's integrated military structure, insisting that France would coordinate but not integrate, and he tried to keep the British out of the European Common Market........