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...most crucial national election in recent French history drew closer last week-and so did the rival forces. The latest nationwide poll, published by the Paris daily Le Figaro, showed that the leftist coalition headed by Socialist Francois Mitterrand had dropped from 46% to 43% in its share of the popular vote. The governing Gaullists had 38% -up 1% from the previous week's results-while independent, middle-of-the-road reformist parties had 16% of the vote, a gain...
...nationwide surveys-published by the middle-of-the-road Paris newspapers Le Figaro (which gives the leftists 46% to the Gaullists' 37%) and L' Aurore (47% to 35%)-have shocked the complacent Gaullists and their supporters into something close to panic. Taking seriously the pledge of Socialist Mitterrand (see box page 27) that a leftist victory in France would culminate in "the suppression of capitalism," businessmen have stepped up their efforts to smuggle funds to havens in Switzerland (TIME, Feb. 19). Meanwhile, Pompidou, who as President is theoretically above party conflicts, has abandoned any pretense of neutrality...
...common platform and then-if they won a parliamentary majority-to govern together. Much to everyone's surprise, the so-called United Left has lately begun to show up on the long end of the opinion polls. In one nationwide sampling published last month by Le Figaro, the leftists had a 45%-to-38% lead over the Gaullists. With his personal popularity in a sharp decline-he slid from 61% approval in the October polls to 53% last month-Pompidou no longer speaks for France with his customary cool assurance...
...Figaro, a centrist French daily not noted for its pro-Americanism, took a more conciliatory tone: "As for throwing the entire responsibility for the failure of the talks solely on the American Government, it is good polemics at most...
...Paris' stately Palais de Justice, eleven men from the ancient province of Brittany went on trial this month before the rarely convened National Security Court. The charges: terrorism and seeking to overthrow the authority of the state. Before the proceedings began, the conservative daily Le Figaro predicted that the defendants-members of an underground organization seeking autonomy for Brittany-would use the trial as a "magnificent platform" for their cause. It was, as matters turned out, a most accurate guess...