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...Murville conceded that France not only faced a budgetary deficit of $2 billion this year but might also be forced to sell some of its $5 billion gold reserves in order to meet a looming gap in its balance of payments. It all meant, explained Foreign Minister Michel Debré, that (Quelle horreur!) France would have to cut back on De Gaulle's prized nuclear strike force...
Despite the obvious risk of a money-losing venture, Foreign Minister Michel Debré insisted last week that France will not back out of the project. Whether that assurance remains valid, of course, depends on the outcome of France's elections. A non-Gaullist French government might yield to the rising pressure to divert government spending to social services. Many Britons, chafing at the Concorde's cost, would like to see it scrapped...
...anarchical students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Shoring up his government, De Gaulle fired eight Ministers, including just about everyone identified with his old social and labor policies, and switched two important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay to take Couve's place. Aside from being an astute diplomat, Couve de Murville is an exceptionally effective administrator and an inspecteur des finances whose task will be to get France's shaken economy in order. Debré, always close...
Arriving at Stockholm airport, Finance Minister Michel Debré stirred more concern by repeating the French demands with embellishments. As the conference opened, club-wielding police broke up a demonstration against the Viet Nam war by 150 young Swedes, some of them carrying signs reading SUPPORT FOR THE DOLLAR IS SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE and NO CREDITS TO U.S. MURDERERS. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, chief U.S. delegate, took a back entrance to avoid the melee...
Around a green-covered table in the Foresta, the clash of views was polite, if pointed. Debré, pressing for debate on the monetary system as a whole, came out formally for an increase in the official price of gold. A long silence ensued. Finally, German Economics Minister Karl Schiller registered his disagreement. Italy's Emilio Colombo sided with the Germans. The U.S.'s Fowler suggested that the real business of the meeting was the SDRs and asked that the group move briskly along in that area...