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Barre's plodding bid for France presidency faces rivals
Paris reporter frames Raymond Barre as the slow moving tortoise in the 1988 race atop a field of candidates. Barre weighs a Lyons announcement on Feb 8 while eyeing François Mitterrand as the main obstacle and Jacques Chirac as a more distant rival.
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France
New York Times
Paris
la Fontaine
Raymond Barre
Francois Mitterrand
Boulevard St.-Germain
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Rally For the Republic
de Gaulle
Union For French Democracy
Valery Giscard d
National Assembly
Fifth Republic