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...understand perfectly. I'll use the extra time to gather more material.' With perfect politeness, she had accepted my apology and put me at my ease." Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo interviewed several observers of modern manners, including New Yorker Cartoonist William Hamilton and Social Critic Fran Lebowitz. She found them grappling with entirely new areas, such as smoking, computer and answering-machine etiquette. Says Castronovo: "It can be argued that the new manners include both lighting your companion's cigarette and snuffing it out in a rage...
President François Mitterrand last week made the first visit to Britain by a French head of state in eight years. Like two of his postwar predecessors, Charles de Gaulle and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Socialist leader was accorded the rare honor of addressing members of both houses of Parliament. He used the occasion to issue a ringing appeal for European unity. Said Mitterrand: "The moment has come to make Europe become a genuine political reality, capable of asserting itself on the international scene...
...Fran Lebowitz, who made her mark as a caustic social critic with Metropolitan Life (1978), also feels that things are getting worse rather than better. "I don't think people have manners," she says. "I don't think people teach their children manners. I think boorishness is the order of the day. There has been a return to convention, but that's all nostalgia. It's just fear, and fear isn't the same thing as manners...
After three years of political exile, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has become the first former President since the Fifth Republic wa; founded in 1958 to regain a seat in the National Assembly. Giscard, who was defeated by François Mitterrand in 1981 , captured an impressive 63% of the vote in the department of Puy-de-Dôme regaining a seat he had held repeatedly since 1956. The winner who has made no secret of his desire to be the center-right presidential candidate in 1988, proclaimed his "victory of reason...
...unlikely liaison scattered diplomatic sparks in many directions. Washington dispatched roving Ambassador Vernon Walters to Rabat to warn Hassan that an angry Congress might now try to block the $140 million in military and economic aid earmarked for Morocco in fiscal 1985. French President François Mitterrand sent a minister to Algeria and another to Chad; he himself dashed off to Rabat to see whether the new alliance could be of help in settling French differences with Libya in Chad. Even Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has not left his country since a serious heart attack ten months...