Nouvel Observateur - French language weekly news magazine, pro Mitterrand, pro Jospin, Socialist, and major mag, read mostly by center left wing crowd, maybe more than half million print run [Summary/translation of article on French scandal figure and G.W. Bush] Dec 28, 2000 [Not a verbatim translation] Pierre FALCONE funded generously G. W. Bush electoral campaign. W's wife is a personal friend of Falcone's wife. Among the guests of Falcone's "Ranch" in Scottsdale (Arizona, "the world's biggest concentration of billionaires"), figure also Bill Gates, high ranking Chinese dignitaries, and French friends flown from Paris in his private jet. Since 1992, Mitterrand's son was part of them. Pierre Falcone is jailed in Paris since dec 1 and Mitterrand dec 22. END Falcone is linked to his father, same name, and the company BRENCO. Its into arms, oil, Angola, Russian connections, you name, it drugs in Burma..french political party pay offs etc If anyone has any info please inform, ds*
