Word: fran
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...election of President FranÇois Mitterrand last month and the subsequent success of the Socialists in National Assembly contests proved once again what students of Gallic culture have known all along: In France, politics is both passionate and unpredictable. Observes Paris Correspondent William Blaylock: "French politics plops across the ideological platter like a dropped soufflé. Candidates seem to have no shared opinions, no established rules of fair play. Nor do they seem to want any." Correspondent Sandra Burton interviewed government officials and French sociologists to assess the impact of the new administration and was struck by the blas...
...France will be able to love him, because France loves a man of the people. His face, his entire way of being inspires confidence." So said François Mitterrand four years ago of the sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 202 lbs.), diligent and impeccably tailored Socialist leader Pierre Mauroy, who is now the new President's Premier. If anything, Mitterrand's assessment rings even more true today. While Mitterrand stayed secluded, Mauroy (pronounced Mawr-wah) led the party's campaign, winning the confidence of voters with his calm advocacy of socialism and the image...
Once again, campaign posters sprouted across the land like wild flowers after a spring rain. At the behest of France's new President, François Mitterrand, the country plunged last week into its second election campaign of 1981, a lightning, three-week blitz to elect a new National Assembly, one that Mitterrand fully intends to see reflect his own Socialist image...
...good start," declared Labor Leader Edmond Maire, head of the Confederation Française Démocratique du Travail. But the prospect of a Socialist majority in parliament sent many investors running for cover. The Paris Bourse dropped eight points last week, steepening a slide that had decreased overall values 26% since Mitterrand's election...
Shales first lost his socks watching '50s favorites such as I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Playhouse 90 and Kukla, Fran and Ollie in front of a 14-in. RCA in Elgin, Ill. (pop. then: 45,000). After graduating from American University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in journalism, he freelanced for several small publications. On his second try, he landed a general assignment slot at the Post. Shales now lives alone in a suburban ranch-style house in Virginia. He is a mildly neurotic M & M addict who, when he is not worrying about his weight...