Word: gaullist
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...Giscard d'Estaing promised to bring "change" to France. So far, at least, he is delivering. In a carefully staged show of disdain for the pomp of the Gaullist years, he walked rather than rode to his inauguration at the Elysée Palace, wore a business suit instead of tails, talked for a few minutes about a "new era" instead of delivering an oration about the glories of the past. Over the next few days he announced the first of several measures to "relax" French political life. He decreed an end to widespread wiretapping by government snoopers, promised...
...plans to deal with France's serious inflation (now 18%) and bring about his heralded "transformation of French society." But to judge by the Cabinet that Giscard trotted out in a chatty, informal television presentation, it was clear that he is unafraid of a wrenching break with the Gaullist past. After 16 years in power, De Gaulle's self-proclaimed heirs had come to view the government as their own; Gaullists held ten of the 16 Cabinet posts in the late Georges Pompidou's government. But Giscard named a renegade Gaullist, former Interior Minister Jacques Chirac...
JACQUES CHIRAC, 41, Premier. More than a year ago, Chirac, then Minister of Agriculture, went out of his way to praise Giscard as "one of the rare statesmen today." After Pompidou's death, Chirac brashly defied the party barons by scorning the official Gaullist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and coming out openly for Giscard. Whether or not Chirac's defection contributed to Chaban's humiliating defeat at the polls, the barons were angrier than they have been at any time since Giscard abandoned De Gaulle...
...years Poniatowski had been a vocal and witty critic of the Gaullist party, though it was a role that he found somewhat difficult to play after Pompidou named him Health Minister 14 months ago. He complained that the party's paternalism was becoming mere arrogance, that France itself was catching "the Gaullist disease, which is to live on the past, on traditions, on dogmas...
...Foreign Minister. Calm and smoothly professional, Sauvagnargues (pronounced sew-va-nyarg) should bring a sharp change in tone to French diplomacy. His predecessor, Michel Jobert, delighted in public jousting with Washington over oil and Middle East policy-a performance that Pompidou felt was necessary to please his restive Gaullist constituency...