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...federal grand jury in San Fran cisco is about to complete a 14-month investigation of sugar-pricing practices and is widely expected to return indict ments against several sugar companies soon. The Justice Department has an nounced that it is conducting a separate investigation of possible sugar price fixing...
...becoming the 71st recipient of the Prix Goncourt, Laine joins a distinguished list of former winners that includes Proust, Malraux and Beauvoir. He also, however, removes his name from an equally distinguished list of former losers: Colette, Cocteau, Gide, Camus and Sartre. Novelist Françoise Mallet-Joris, a member of the Goncourt jury, defended its spotty record last week by pointing out that "we are judging a book by a young author who might have written only one or two earlier" -a process that is apparently as unreliable as judging a book by its cover...
...that a confrontation between the center-right President and the leftist French unions had been delayed so long. As Finance Minister in the government of the late Georges Pompidou, Giscard was widely famed as an economic wizard-a reputation that was largely responsible for his narrow victory over Socialist François Mitterrand in last May's elections. Since then, despite Giscard's imposition of a classically conservative program of tightening credit, raising some taxes and holding down budget expenditures, the French economy has gradually deteriorated...
...straight talk about this sordid matter. Indeed I urge you to politicize this important issue and organize students, faculty and staff and all university members who believe in equality to see this matter through at long last and finally lay to rest this sorry Watergate episode of the university. Fran P. Hosken, Women's International Network
...Learn a trade' is the most important piece of advice I'd give to a young girl today," says Françoise Giroud, 58. "I can support the idea that you let a man beat you four times a day because you love him, but not because you can't afford to leave him." Giroud has obviously been taking her own advice. As a journalist, she was co-founder and longtime editor of the French newsweekly L'Express. As a spokesperson for women's rights, she was named France's first State Secretary...