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...many ministries the Communists would control in the event of a leftist victory. In exchange for Marchais's backing of Socialist candidates in the runoff elections March 19, Mitterrand had agreed to reward the Communists with as many as half of the Cabinet ministries. At that time, Gaston Defferre, the Socialist mayor of Marseille, issued a grave warning to Mitterrand: "Better to lose than give anything to the Communists." Taking a contrary position, the Socialist Party's left wing, which had criticized Mitterrand for not making more concessions to the Communists, refused last week to endorse a Socialist...
...million-copy supplement blaming the Socialists for the split; an editorial accused Mitterrand's party of denying workers "a really better life" by refusing "to accept the need to challenge the privileges of the very rich." Anti-Socialist demonstrations by Communist workers were denounced as a "provocation" by Gaston Defferre, the Socialist mayor of Marseille. Questioning the Communists' much-vaunted devotion to Western-style democracy, Defferre sardonically observed that they preferred "a popular democracy of the type Czechoslovakia has to endure." Angered by the attacks on him, Mitterrand complained at a Socialist meeting that the Communists had been...
...possible sign of new authoritarianism in Germany. The uproar further betrays a European envy of Germany's healthy economy and stable politics and an annoyance with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's penchant for lecturing other countries about their internal problems. Observed Luxembourg's liberal Premier Gaston Thorn: "One looks at West Germany, and one recalls that this was the country that started two world wars, lost both, and is now 'No. 1' in Western Europe; this can be very hard for some to take...
...smiles to fill it out; but her voice is so stirring and powerful that it overwhelms any deficiencies in her acting. By contrast, Linda Anne Kirwan is a gifted comedienne, handling the part of Pheobe with real comic flair and singing well, if less vigorously than her rival. Roberto Gaston makes an extraordinarily winning Fairfax, with his broad toothy grin, strong tenor and charming Gilbertian sense of the absurd...
...history- realized by such grand-scale performers of the period as Augustus Saint-Gaudens-eventually made an accommodation with modern style through art deco. In the studios of beaux-arts figures like Saint-Gaudens and Karl Bitter, as well as those of decorators like Paul Manship and protomodernists like Gaston Lachaise, John Storrs and Elie Nadelman, sculpture made its last pub lic stand before the museum became its sole arena...