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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...
After abandoning the Renault and commandeering a passing motorist's white sedan, the trio released the hostages unharmed. They then zipped off to their hideout-which, it became clear later, was an apartment just around the corner from the office of Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. While 10,000 of Paris' finest scoured the city, the Jubin gang felt confident enough to pull yet another job. They were abducting a young secretary, to use as a hostage, in her car when one of the few police units in Paris not assigned to the case apprehended them. Said...
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...
Alas, the Premier chose to make his speech on the very day that the taxes of his fellow Frenchmen fell due. Critics on the left and right pronounced themselves unconvinced, and anti-Chaban demonstrators staged a march from the Place de la Bastille to the Hôtel de Ville. Had the Premier, who has been a deputy, mayor of Bordeaux, minister of the Fourth and Fifth Republics and speaker of the National Assembly, now become a liability to his party? Gaullist Deputy Jacques Richard overheard a shopgirl remark, as she paid her taxes, "Ah, if only I could manage...