Chirac in Hospital
LA BAULE, France - President Jacques Chirac has been hospitalized in Paris for a “small vascular incident” affecting his eyesight, the prime minister said Saturday.
Chirac, 72, was taken to Val-de-Grace hospital in Paris Friday evening and was expected to remain there for a week, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said in the Atlantic coastal resort of La Baule. He did not elaborate.



