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Having won the Elysée, the new President faces formidable obstacles
Reality came crashing down on Giscard at 6:30 p.m. on election Sunday with the insistent ringing of a telephone at the family's chateau de Varvasse in the village of Chanonat (pop. 850). Campaign Manager Jean-François Deniau had some bad tidings: early computer projections showed...
Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, though visibly shaken by his first-round setback, was hardly resigned to a marginal role under a Mitterrand presidency, however. Indeed, Marchais was quick to show that ill urging his disciplined followers to vote for Mitterrand in last week's runoff, he was making...
In his revised vision of the presidential role, Giscard can be haughty and even arrogant. No better example exists than the furor aroused by a gift of diamonds he received from former Central African Despot Jean-Bédel Bokassa. When the issue was first raised in October 1979 Giscard...
No one in Giscard's entourage has any doubt that a disgruntled electorate will punish the President in the first election round. In next month's runoff, though, his advisers are counting on French apprehensions, rather than gratitude or affection to win Giscard another seven years in the...