Word: fran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deny that a "traditional exchange" had taken place. Bokassa also gave diamonds, the weekly said, to Cabinet Ministers Robert Galley and Yvon Bourges, and Giscard's top adviser, René Journiac. Other alleged recipients: Giscard's brother, Business Consultant Olivier, and two of their cousins, Banker François and Finance Official Jacques. Unlike the President, his relatives all denied the allegations...
...political opposition in France has been unable to capitalize on Giscard's troubles. Though Communist Leader Georges Marchais has said, "I'm ready to unite with the devil to checkmate the Giscard-Barre policy," he and Socialist Chief François Mitterrand are bedeviled by a problem: they are not even on speaking terms. There has been no attempt by either man to patch up the bitter ideological split that destroyed their chances of winning last year's legislative elections. Jacques Chirac, the ambitious Paris mayor and neo-Gaullist leader who hopes to challenge Giscard...
...NOTEBOOK: On hand to watch the weekend's matches was Fran Jennings, a Radcliffe tennis champion of the '20s. The USTA recently gave her its National Community Award for contributing to the teaching of tennis among the underprivileged
...government get off so easily. After all, France had supported the Bokassa regime for 13 years and given it up to $100 million a year in aid. Giscard periodically flew off to hunt big game with the dictator and publicly hailed him as "my relative." Scoffed Socialist Leader François Mitterrand: "What do they mean, no bloodshed? Blood was flowing for years, and it was known in Paris. This comic emperor owed his power only to the complacency of French officials...
...Somerville Journal hit the stands late last Thursday. Fran Conti of Warner's Cable Channel 13 news department said yesterday people across the city bought copies of the paper in bulk quantity late that evening. Several news dealers ran out of papers, and the publishers of the Journal printed and distributed 6000 more copies on Friday...