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Shrewd Judgment. Couve's distaste for campaigning helped Rocard. What aided him even more was the TV exposure he gained last May as a minor presidential candidate. Though he won only 3.6% of the vote and was eliminated in the first round, Rocard came across as an incisive, articulate and iconoclastic politician. He labeled the Communists "retrograde bureaucrats," denounced the Czechoslovak invasion, demanded that France withdraw from NATO and called for total worker control of private business. In his campaign for the Assembly, Rocard told audiences that France must discard its "model of American capitalism." He also criticized...
...Looking even more dour than usual, Couve showed up at a rally of young Gaullists three days after his defeat and attributed the loss to pointless naysaying. "Since I represented something constructive, the answer had to be non, as always, non, the eternal non" he said bitterly. As one of only two former aides who have seen De Gaulle since his retirement (ex-Defense Minister Pierre Messmer is the other), Couve also had a few things to say publicly about the general's plans. De Gaulle realized, reported Couve, that any political meddling on his part "would make...
...Even dictators face death, and on that certitude Spain's Francisco Franco, 76 and ailing, has for months been fashioning a succession to his liking. Three months ago, he decreed the restoration of a constitutional monarchy after his death; at his direction, Spain's Parliament designated bland, handsome Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, 31, as eventual Chief of State. To ensure that the actual governing of Spain will be in expert hands, Franco has also been planning the Cabinet that he wants to leave in charge of the country. Last week...
...means indicate a shift to a less dictatorial Spain. Said one Madrileňo, who belongs to the order himself: "This means an economic opening up to Europe, but it does not necessarily mean liberalism at home. There is not one man on the list you could call even moderately left...
...Even though she has no taste for the stuff herself, as far as Margaret Mead is concerned, puffing on pot is not a dangerous pastime. In Washington to testify before a Senate subcommittee studying drug abuse, the aging (67) but very much tuned-in anthropologist asserted that marijuana is less toxic than tobacco and milder than booze. What is harmful, she said, is the law banning the drug. As she put it: "There is the adult with a cocktail in one hand and a cigarette in the other telling the child. 'You cannot.' " The answer, Dr. Mead told...