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...France's cold civil war seemed to heat up in its final days, that was because it was the closest race for President since Charles de Gaulle created the Fifth Republic in 1958. From the moment that Mitterrand and Giscard emerged as the leaders in the first-round election earlier this month, France's usually reliable opinion polls had the two candidates running almost dead even. At week's end one survey showed Giscard with a narrow 51% to 49% edge over Mitterrand in the decided votes, with 11% of the voters still undecided. The tightness...
...have sound reasons for seeking the spoils of Gaullism. It is the Gaullist 15.1% of the vote that Chaban collected that holds the balance of power between Giscard's first-round 32.6% and Mitterrand's 43.2%. For the first time in the campaign, French opinion polls differed last week over the favorite. One showed Giscard edging ahead by 51% to 49%; another found Mitterrand leading by the same margin...
After the death of Georges Pompidou last month, a full dozen candidates entered the race to succeed him as President. This week French voters went to the polls for a first-round election that cut the field down to two, and set the stage for one of the most bitter runoff campaigns in French political history. The contenders: Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 57, who is running with increasing power, backed by both his own party and the Communists, and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, the first Establishment candidate to win a shot...
Radcliffe's lone singles entry in the tournament, sophomore Cheryl Gelzer, came up on the short end of a 6-1, 6-0, first-round match with Mt. Holyoke's number one player Abbe Wise...
...years ago, for instance, he engineered a dazzling deal that brought Guy LaFleur, a top minor-league prospect, to Montreal. Having already procured the California Seals' first-round draft pick in an earlier trade, Pollock helped ensure that the Seals would finish last and therefore have the first choice of rookies. He accomplished this by selling a reliable veteran center, Ralph Backstrom, to the Los Angeles Kings, who were struggling with the Seals to stay out of last place. Backstrom's arrival kept the Kings out of the cellar. Pollock is such a shrewd trader that the Canadiens...