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...provided much-needed healing balm for the alliance, which has recently been sorely troubled. Inflation and recession have greatly weakened some NATO members, particularly Britain which votes this week on whether to remain in the Common Market. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has continued the Gaullist policy of not participating in NATO's military planning; indeed, he declined to appear at the summit, attending only a state dinner given by Belgian King Baudouin and a closed-door meeting with Ford...
...allow young officers to rise faster in rank. "The decisions taken today are only the first step," said Giscard. In fact, they were really a second step. Last January he shook up France's military leadership by naming Yvon Bourges, 53, a tough, energetic and sometimes abrasive Gaullist, as Minister of Defense to replace the ineffectual Jacques Soufflet. General Marcel Bigeard, 59, a paratroop hero and one of France's most decorated soldiers, was named Bourges's deputy...
Died. Paul Ely, 77, former French army chief of staff; in Paris. After seeing action in the trenches along the Marne in World War I, Ely joined the Gaullist Resistance when the Nazis conquered France in 1940, and made several hazardous Channel crossings as liaison between the underground and De Gaulle's London headquarters. Named army chief of staff in 1953, he made the final unsuccessful French appeal for American intervention in France's colonial war in Indochina. When Ho Chi Minh's troops overran the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu, Ely assumed command in Indochina...
Since the death of Georges Pompidou last April, the party of Charles de Gaulle has been in a disarray bordering on ruin. In the May election for Pompidou's successor as President, the official Gaullist candidate won only 15% of the vote, and after 16 years in the Elysée, the party saw the presidency go to a non-Gaullist, former Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Many Gaullists are now turning to another non-Gaullist who, paradoxically, they think may be the savior of their movement. He is Michel Jobert, 53, who, as Georges...
...Gaullist Inspiration. The Greek Parliament, which began meeting last week for the first time since 1967, must now fashion a new constitution for the republic. Premier Constantine Caramanlis, whose New Democracy Party commands 220 of Parliament's 300 seats, has proposed a Gaullist-inspired system of presidential government, with strong consolidation of power in one office. If Parliament approves his draft constitution, as it is expected to do within the next three months, another election will be held. Whether the President is elected by Parliament or through a national plebiscite, a Caramanlis victory is certain...