Chirac's health woes spur talk of succession
7th Sep 2005, 04:16 GMT
Jacques Chirac's hospitalization for a vascular problem in his eye has been described as minor, but it appears to have galvanized possible successors and caused a media uproar about the naked ambitions of Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
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