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...Secret. For many Frenchmen and foreigners alike, the dismissal confirmed the impression that De Gaulle's recent brush with near-disaster had not made him one whit less willful or arbitrary. There also was concern about the future course of De Gaulle's policies. The general has interpreted the big election victory as a mandate to push through his reforms. The main one is participation, which he envisions as a new way of life that will enable students to have more say in the running of the universities and workers to share in both the profits and managerial...
Still, his forbidding public image makes Couve's personality a political issue in France. Though many Frenchmen recognize that his remoteness has been an effective diplomatic ploy, they worry that he may lack the capacity for compassion that a Premier in France should have at present. After all, his main duty will be to direct a reform program whose goal is to redress potentially explosive grievances in French society. Two of the major groups with which he must deal, the students and workers, are in no mood to accept highhanded treatment from the government. Still, Couve...
Accompanying his talk, scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday in Emerson 210, will be two films, "Life under the Bombs," filmed in North Vietnam by Frenchmen and a Stat Department production, "Why Vietnam...
...very magnitude of the Gaullist election victory made many Frenchmen apprehensive. "La mariee est trop belle (The bride is too beautiful)," mused one television commentator, meaning that so decisive a victory placed on the Gaullists an inescapable and unparalleled burden for France's future. "The Gaullist tank is more powerful than ever, but it no longer has any brakes," warned Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), a liberal Catholic weekly. "What a temptation for the driver to roll right over any opposition...
...French are rarely consistent, but they are usually logical-in their fashion. From the lycée onward, millions of Frenchmen are exposed to the classic symmetrical syllogisms of cartesian logic; as a result, a Frenchman tends to dismiss whatever he disagrees with not because it is intrinsically wrong but because it seems wrongly reasoned. "C'est pas logique."-roughly, "No one in his right mind would think like that"-is a favorite saying. To the vast numbers of middle-aged who feared continued social upheavals, to the little old ladies in black who considered the old ways best...