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A disappointed Giscard thus shelved his plans for a new party. Instead of running for a lowly parliamentary seat, he decided to withdraw to his country estate, much as De Gaulle did in 1946. The defeated President was hoping that a taste of chaotic Socialist government would make him what...
Despite the controversy they provoked, the FBI statements appear to be consistent with some of the findings in the investigation so far. TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce has verified that family members have indeed been suspects in at least three of the murders (although evidence is still insufficient...
The same ambiguity has hampered Giscard at home. He began his mandate with a bold series of reforms. Within 26 months he lowered the French minimum voting age from 21 to 18, liberalized divorce laws and legalized abortion. Then his zeal flagged. Giscard has not changed a tax system that...
In the first, dubbed Vesco I by Government lawyers, he offered four Georgians $10 million in late 1976 if they could persuade the incoming Carter Administration to fix his legal problems. The group in turn paid W. Spencer Lee IV, a lawyer from Albany, Ga., $10,000 to talk with...
Yet for all that, and despite holding the most public office in the world under unforgiving scrutiny, Jimmy Carter is, remarkably, harder to figure out now than he was in 1973 when, as Governor of Georgia, he appeared as the mystery guest on the television show What's My...