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Across French TV screens flashed the handsome face of Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. For once Chaban didn't look like the golden boy of French politics. Somber and severe, he appeared, reported Le Monde, like "a wounded...
...Checkers-style speech to his countrymen, the Premier was answering charges that, by taking skillful advantage of French tax laws, he had paid no income taxes whatever between 1966 and 1969 (TIME, Feb. 14). "I obeyed the law applying to everyone," Chaban declared. He supplied no figures, but briefly listed his property, including two houses and two apartments. "Now," said the Premier, "you know as much about it as I do." At times his tone was cutting, occasionally he bordered on rage...
...most illustrious names on the invitation list failed to make it. Regrets were sent by President Nixon (who dispatched Spiro Agnew instead), Queen Elizabeth II (who was represented by Prince Philip and Princess Anne) and, in the unkindest cut of all, French President Georges Pompidou, who sent Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas. What was particularly grating was the fact that the Shah had given the affair such a heavily French accent. Taking note of this, Pompidou is reported by a Western diplomat to have said: "If I did go, they would probably make me the headwaiter...
...Married. Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 56, French Premier, longtime Gaullist and World War II Resistance leader; and Micheline Chavelet, 42, Haiphong-born Parisian divorcee; she for the second, he for the third time; in Bordeaux, France...
Airport, he shot right past the honor guard and band. Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas had to steer him back to the reviewing stand to hear the Marseillaise and God Save the Queen...