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Faltering Miracle. Few observers anywhere expect dramatic changes in French foreign policy, even if a non-Gaullist is elected. (French domestic policy is another matter entirely, especially if a leftist candidate wins.) Despite the resurgence of strident Gaullist rhetoric in recent months, Georges Pompidou was first and foremost a realist. At home the tragedy of his presidency was that he had to work almost in stealth on developing the "modern" France that he envisioned, lest he upset the orthodox Gaullist constituency to which he was chained. It was a project that he could not hope to finish. Even...
...others were justifiably less generous with their praise. They saw the foremost failure on the Radcliffe side, where the number of blacks admitted dropped by five, despite a 15-per-cent jump--from 265 to 305--in black applications...
FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND, 57, also a former Resistance leader, is France's foremost Socialist and a formidable vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished...
...favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct, but he had violated another, more important Confucian precept--"First and foremost," The Master had said, "be faithful to your superiors." Confucians stood by parents, princes, and emperors, right or wrong...
...first and foremost of Cleary's worries will be figuring out the lineup for tonight's game. Injuries and illness will force several starters to miss the game, while several others are still in doubt. "I don't even know who's going to dress," Cleary said yesterday. "I really don't have the foggiest...