Word: gaullists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...setting up new companies. Gaston Defferre, Minister for Planning, flew to Pittsburgh in November to pursue an agreement with Carnegie-Mellon University, which heads a 17-campus consortium that offers French firms direct access to U.S. research in automated manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence and computer- based education. "In Gaullist times French identity was to be defended against American domination," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, author (The American Challenge) and former Cabinet minister who heads the government's computer-development agency. "Now instead of being afraid of America, we are forging all possible links." Despite disagreements over Central America and Libya...
...essential to avoid turning back, to avoid the reaction sought by the right, which would bring this country economic traumas and social shocks." Fabius asked, "Does this country really want the right to come back?" To stir combative Socialist spirits, the Premier challenged two of the opposition leaders, Neo-Gaullist Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac and center-right former Premier Raymond Barre, to television debates. Both declined. With a semblance of party unity restored, delegates could agree on at least one common purpose. As left-wing Socialist Deputy Michel Charzat put it, "The Socialists do not want to lose power...
...talk about what he would do with the next four years if reelected. His campaign was blithe triumphalism. In his memoirs, Charles de Gaulle wrote, "I must, to serve [France], personify this great national ambition." In his very American way, Reagan had assumed a sort of Gaullist role for himself. "America is back," he would...
Initial reactions to Fabius' appointment were mixed. Said Bernard Pons, secretary-general of the neo-Gaullist party: "The Communists have just said today, down to the last comma, what we have been repeating for three years: the government's economic and industrial policy is a failure." But in a backhanded compliment to Fabius, Republican Party Leader François Leotard noted that Mitterrand had chosen "one of the best. We must not underestimate our adversary...
...Socialists at least could take some consolation from the continuing division among the three leading opposition figures. Former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a conservative centrist, was sagging in the popular-opinion sweepstakes (with 8%). Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, a neo-Gaullist, was still in the lead but slipping (with 37%). Only former Finance Minister Raymond Barre, a champion of austerity himself, seemed to be gaining in popularity (up 5% in the past month, to 20%). For Mitterrand, who is waiting for the fruits of austerity to help the Socialists in parliamentary elections two years from...