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...resemble an automobile racer who sets off from Le Mans and gets farther and farther behind the other cars in every lap of the race," says retired Air Force General Paul Stehlin, now an anti-Gaullist Deputy in the National Assembly. "Under the most favorable hypothesis, by 1975 we will dispose of a nuclear capacity of around 30 megatons. The U.S. already boasts 30,000 and the U.S.S.R. perhaps...
Nixon responded with some banter of his own. "I sense that I am becoming more and more Gaullist," he told Pompidou. "It is said that I am becoming less and less so," Pompidou replied. Nixon retorted: "It doesn't show...
...More Gaullist. The French response is that the Market's purchases of U.S. farm products have risen 42% since 1966. Further, the French hold that before any deal is made on trade, a new world monetary system must be hammered out. Nixon disagrees, figuring that the current monetary upheaval -with the continuing weakness of the dollar-is a symptom and not the cause of the trade imbalance...
...ideological, intellectual and elitist" back in 1968. The French far left-ten main groups, with a total membership of no more than 30,000-is much smaller than the German movement. But it has achieved striking success in mining pockets of discontent that have been neglected by both the Gaullist regime and the establishment left. A variety of Marxist fronts-Trotskyites, Jean-Claude Navatte's Marxist-evangelist Christian Student Youth organization-helped transform hundreds of France's often-bored secondary-school students into a politically conscious, slogan-chanting pressure group powerful enough to put the government...
Central Issue. The initial European reaction was generally predictable. Officials of Britain's Tory government, who share many of the Nixon-Kissinger attitudes about Europe's narrow "regional personality," were privately enthusiastic. The French were decidedly negative. Reflecting the somewhat automatic paranoia of its Gaullist audience, the Paris daily La Nation suggested that Kissinger had launched not a debate but "a diplomatic offensive which in appearance only is an "offensive de charme.' " West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung raised what may prove to be the central issue. The U.S. had posed all the important questions...