Word: chaban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely felt boredom with the Gaullists. Last spring, 40% of the French electorate did not even bother to turn out for a Common Market referendum that Pompidou too cleverly planned as a kind of national vote of confidence. Then came the scandals-notably the flap over former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas's tax returns (TIME, Feb. 14)-the Cabinet shuffles and the gray replacements. Chaban-Delmas's successor, Pierre Messmer, a colorless veteran of De Gaulle's Cabinets, made his debut in the Pompidou government in a saccharine and self-serving interview on the government TV network...
Polnareff: Not at all. It was simply a practical joke. I just wanted to make people laugh. There's too much moroseness [a word used by former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas to describe the current atmosphere in France] in this country...
Aranda, Chalandon's former press attaché, began preparing the latest revelation after Chalandon lost his job last July when Pompidou forced Chaban-Delmas to tender his resignation. Chalandon asked Aranda to go through his correspondence and sort it out. Aranda did, and made photocopies of documents he considered compromising to Gaullist bigwigs...
...budge from his position on the summit, and why Brandt could not change the French President's mind. Both men were forced to caution and inaction by political problems at home. Even as he talked with Brandt, Pompidou had made up his mind to sack Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, replacing him with Old Gaullist Pierre Messmer. Brandt, in turn, had in his pocket an angry five-page letter of resignation from the man who until recently had been the star of his Cabinet, Karl Schiller, the super-Minister who held both the Finance and Economics portfolios...
Illegal tax evasion is not as popular in France as it might be, however, since it is possible to avoid many taxes in an entirely legal way. A case in point is Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, who by taking full advantage of his lawful deductions paid no taxes from 1966 to 1969 (TIME, Feb. 28). Deductions of 20% to 30% are allowed journalists, pilots, car salesmen, life insurance inspectors, dancers, singers, musicians, chauffeurs and hat designers, compared with 5% to 10% permitted printers or coal miners. The generous deductions that France allows for children are not taken from income...