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...Friday, Giscard announced in a television interview that French paratroopers had attacked Kolwezi in two waves. "It was necessary," he said, "to carry out the operation as quickly and quietly as possible." Giscard's statement caused something of a stir both at home and abroad. Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand, speaking before the National Assembly in Paris, said that "it's absolutely impossible to have this kind of operation going on without the Assembly knowing about it." He also charged that the legionnaires' intervention was not justified by France's cooperation agreements with...
...first visit to Algiers, De Gaulle sent a cheering mob of colons in the Forum into near ecstasy with his celebrated opening words: "Je vous ai compris" (I have understood you). To the pieds noirs, it was a sign that De Gaulle accepted the idea of Algérie Française - and perhaps at the time he did. Yet to the dismay of the army and the fury of the settlers, De Gaulle eventually concluded that Algeria would have to be sacrificed for the greater glory of France...
MARRIED. Paloma Picasso, 29, daughter of the late painter and his longtime mistress Françoise Gilot; and Raphael Lopez Sanchez, 30, Argentine-born playwright for whose productions Paloma has designed sets and costumes; in Paris...
Byron may have inspired the image of the archromantic. But it was François-René de Chateaubriand-writer, politician and Olympian lover-who lived it. Born in 1768 to a minor Breton nobleman, he came of age with the French Revolution. By the time he was 24, the Chevalier Chateaubriand had already journeyed to America in search of noble savages and exotic flora...
...equivalent to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Traditionally, the position should have gone to the chosen candidate of the Assembly's leading political party-in this case, the Gaullists, who won 25 more seats in parliament than Giscard's Union pour la Démocratic Française. Instead, there was a dramatic contest over the presidency involving Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Giscard. Chirac's candidate, incumbent Assembly President Edgar Faure, 69, was pitted against Giscard's unavowed but clear choice, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 63. Although Chirac instructed his Gaullist Assembly members...