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...further defections from the already depleted opposition. He planned to visit six more cities across France, plainly hoping for a wide national mandate in the runoff election June 15. As if to help him gain it, the French Communist Party took the unprecedented step of ordering its followers to abstain from the voting altogether. If every Communist voter hewed to the party line, Pompidou was already assured of a majority. No Frenchman expected it to end quite that neatly, but as the campaign entered its final week, Georges Pompidou seemed almost certain to become the next President of France...
Before Charles de Gaulle vowed to resign "without delay" if Frenchmen reject his proposals in the April 27 national referendum, the polls showed an apathetic and uncertain electorate: 52% undecided or determined to abstain and the rest almost evenly divided. Last week the first poll taken after the general's ultimatum turned up results that would dismay a lesser man. A full 40% of the voters had not yet made up their minds, and the rest were still divided. Only 52% intended to vote oui for De Gaulle's program-and therefore for De Gaulle himself...
...months to twelve. The Ministry of Interior prepared 29 million pamphlets explaining the referendum-one for every voter in France. Applying what has always before been the clinching argument, Minister of State Roger Frey drew a frightening picture of a France without De Gaulle: "To vote no or to abstain is to vote for the Communist Party, to compromise France's economic recovery, and to sabotage the defense of the franc...
...circulars urging 36,000 city employees to attend similar clinics. Despite these efforts, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare estimates that only 45% of the people who want to quit really do so for as long as three weeks-and less than half of those are able to abstain for a full year...
...Mailer-sex is as much a political as a procreative process; Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover struck a calculated blow against the morality of the time. To prostitutes, it is only a livelihood, and frequently no more erotic than punching a clock. Some clerical celibates abstain for life without showing any adverse physical or psychological effects...