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...election campaigns. The leftist coalition has promised to halt the flow of French capital abroad-a threat that merely sends more money than ever rushing across the border. It has also vowed to crack down on tax evasion, an issue that is not of much help to the Gaullists these days. Last week the wife of a tax inspector who has been charged with fraud insisted that the government look into the income tax returns of three former Cabinet ministers. The politicians promptly sued for libel, but even the cautious Paris daily Le Monde felt compelled...
...Gaullist government is not expected to buy the idea of liberalization without a fight. A few years ago a committee of the Public Health Ministry insisted that "the state can never legalize abortion." Government officials and their supporters, still of the same mind, at first did not respond to last week's declarations, hoping to forestall debate. They feared that inflamed public opinion could force a change in the government's stance, thus alienating Catholic voters. By midweek, however, the newspapers were so full of the controversy that silence became impossible. Public Health Minister Jean Foyer spoke...
...more positive response came, surprisingly, from a Gaullist Deputy, Jacques Sourdille of the Ardennes region, who announced that he would soon introduce a liberal abortion bill in the National Assembly. The fate of that measure depends partly on the election outcome. If the Gaullists are defeated, the bill-or a similar one-is almost certain to pass. If they win, Sourdille's permissive bill may be defeated, but public opinion is nevertheless expected to force at least some degree of reform...
What will President Georges Pompidou do if the Gaullists win next month's parliamentary elections? According to one highly imaginative scenario that political observers in Paris are currently debating, his first step will be to sack lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer, 56, and appoint in his stead Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47. As it happens, the suave, non-Gaullist Giscard is regarded as Pompidou's arch rival for the 1976 presidential elections. Last week he came in a close second to former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas in a nationwide popularity poll...
...thing, Pompidou's ultra-Gaullist Minister of Defense, Michel Debre, did not take part in the conversations-a clear indication that France's independent stand in military matters continues unchanged. Brandt's affirmation, moreover, that "the security interests of the European Union coincide with those of the larger Atlantic alliance" received stony silence from the French. In an equally candid preanniversary appearance on West German television, Brandt had stated bluntly. "Whatever they [the French] say, they don't want U.S. troops to pull out of Europe, at least not out of Germany." In a joint statement...