Word: canard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rique is now fairly bursting with the ingredients for le grand repas. Lobsters from the state of Maine (named for the region in northwest France), milk-fed veal from le Midwest, good beef and lamb from Montana and New Jersey, le bon canard known as Long Island duckling, the little shrimp of New Orleans, the crab of San Francisco, an aspiring caviar, even snails, frogs' legs and truffles from la Californie. Speaking of la Californie, G-M advise you to drink its wines by all means. The Californians, led-cela va sans dire-by French and Italian growers, have...
...help them contract for major advertising. Moreover, under Giscard, a bewildering catalogue of government subsidies for such publishing costs as paper, telephone and telex communications has drawn financially pressed newspapers into an ever closer dependency on the Palace. Says Roger Fressoz, editor of the outspoken satiric weekly Le Canard Enchaîné (circ. 640,000): "Everything was put in place so that the major media. . . are controlled by the President's men, who regulate carefully and severely all the wheels, leaving nothing to chance...
...that, Giscard's control has not been total. The present trouble began in the autumn of 1979 when Le Canard reported that the President had, as both Finance Minister and President, accepted gifts of diamonds worth more than $240,000 from the tyrannical Central African Republic "Emperor" Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was deposed last year with the help of French troops. Le Canard also published Giscard's 1978 income tax return, pointing out that he continued to be an active shareholder in the Paris Bourse while making decisions that presumably could affect his stock prices. Then...
Last September, Le Canard reported that Bokassa had hired a journalist named Roger Delpey to write his biography. He turned over to Delpey some 187 documents, many believed to be embarrassing to Giscard. Delpey was arrested on charges of "compromising the external policy of France" and jailed without trial. The documents were seized. Later, several that were considered crucial to Delpey's defense were removed...
...disposal of the presidential candidates, who can appropriate as much or as little of them as they please. They have even been known to dip into the enemy camp for supplies. Still, this year's platforms, hammered out with diligence and zeal, are an eloquent refutation of the canard that parties in America do not stand for anything. They stand for plenty - and they stand apart...