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President Jacques Chirac's four-country hurtle round West Africa (21-24 July) was a damp squib. He lacks the verve of his more cerebral predecessor François Mitterrand who had set much store by his own pro-democracy pronouncements at the La Baule Francophone summit in 1991....

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