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He and Mr Chirac exchanged such strong words at the summit that the French president, in a fit of pique, promptly cancelled the traditional end-of-year Anglo-French summit.
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These have been on hold since Beijing halted them in 1995 in a fit of pique when Mr Lee was allowed to pay a private visit to the United States.
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But then everybody knows that not cultivating Mr Helms, whose latest fit of pique is holding up the confirmation of America's ambassador to Mexico, would do foreign policy no good.
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