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...Gallic John Kennedy, has at last found a national role; as Giscard's Minister of Reform, a new post, he will have a chance to try out his long-advocated proposals for giving more power and authority to local and regional government. Jean Lecanuet, 54, another centrist leader with somewhat more real political clout than J.J. S.-S., was given the sensitive Justice Ministry. Giscard is likely to lean most heavily on three ministers with whom he has strong personal ties...
...marshal in Napoleon's army-Ponia-towski has known Giscard since student days, and he is distantly related to Giscard's wife. He helped Giscard set up his Independent Republican Party in 1966. Well before Pompidou's death, Poniatowski had worked quietly to line up the centrist parties' support that proved so crucial in the election two weeks...
...holidays, Mitterrand and his allies can make trouble for Giscard in the National Assembly, where the Socialists and Communists hold 174 of the 490 seats. With only 55 seats in the hands of his own Independent Republican Party, Giscard needs the support of the Gaullists (183 seats) and some Centrist deputies if he is to govern effectively. The Gaullists have never cared for Giscard, who broke with the party in the 1969 referendum on regional reform that led to De Gaulle's fall from power; they say that they will give his regime varying "degrees of support," depending...
This leaves Israel with basically the same government which it has had for the past four years, a coalition of Labor, the National Religious Party, and the conciliatory Independent Liberals, Labor being headed by the centrist Meir, rather than Allon or Sapir. However, the coalition is much less secure than before the election, and it could easily fall apart if the peace talks take certain turns. The National Religious Party and Moshe Dayan's right-wing segment of Labor appear to oppose territorial concessions to Jordan, for instance, since they regard the West Bank as historically part of Israel. United...
...best theological work to date. It is a thoughtful pastoral prescription for a changing church, which, however, insists that basic Christian concepts-the Resurrection, a Saviour, God's fidelity-are still valid answers to modern man's anxieties. Says Eugene Kennedy: "Greeley is a progressive centrist. He defends the church while trying to move it forward...