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...Gaullists got more votes than any other party in modern French history. The final outcome would not be known until this week, since the election is decided in two rounds. But in the first round, in which only those candidates who won a clear majority in their districts were elected, 61 of the 96 winners either belonged to the U.N.R. or were endorsed by the Gaullist Association for the Fifth Republic. Nine of the victors were ministers in Pompidou's government. In runoffs to fill the other 386 seats at week's end, Gaullists gleefully predicted that they...
...badly beaten by De Gaulle's hand-picked candidate. Resistance Hero Jules Houcke, 64. who did not even make a single public campaign speech. Former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who commands a smooth local machine as longtime mayor of Arras, ran 1,200 votes behind a little-known Gaullist. In Normandy, former Radical Premier Pierre Mendés-France, 55, dour Cassandra of the intellectual left, was hopelessly outdistanced by urbane Jean de Broglie. 41, De Gaulle's civil service chief. From Toulouse to Versailles, many other old-line politicians were defeated by newcomers who, in the French...
...candidate seemingly needed td" win was the Gaullists' magic slogan on the ballot: "For the Fifth Republic." In Marseille, U.N.R. Candidate Yves Le Tac, a stranger to the area, who had survived two assassination attempts by the SAO in France, went into hiding throughout the campaign for fear of SAO retaliation. In the end, he led all candidates, including a millionaire shipowner who is one of the region's few popular capitalists. Independent Deputy Edouard Frédéric-Dupont, who has presided over his Paris district so long that he is called the "Archbishop...
...implacable antiCommunist, he is one of the chief targets of France's Reds, who call him a "social traitor" and "America's man." But with that fatal French excess of cleverness. Mollet declared that Socialists losing in the first round should support Communist candidates rather than Gaullists, arguing that the ten or twelve additional Communist Deputies who might thus get elected would be less of a threat to the nation than an equivalent increase in "unconditional" Gaullist strength...
...such strongholds as Marseille refused to make any deals with the Communists. In dozens of constituencies, including Mollet's, Communist candidates who scored heavily in the election's first round did in fact withdraw in favor of Socialists and other candidates who had any hope of beating Gaullists. At best, they hoped to deny the U.N.R. a majority in the Assembly. "Mollet." crowed a Gaullist official, "gave us 400,000 votes...