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...French industry will have to face increased competition, and it is believed ill equipped to hold its own. De Gaulle's bills aim at tightening up industry and encouraging mergers, also include profit-sharing provisions for workers. As important as these economic reforms is the Gaullist intent to force center groups sandwiched between the Gaullists and the left in the National Assembly either to make common cause with the Gaullists, or take the blame for defeating the government bill and thus risk new elections...
Ominous Sign. "Before, the majority was asked only to ratify; now it is asked to abdicate," said Jean Lecanuet, the head of the Centre Démocrate Party and a leading center politician. He was expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger-than-ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned...
...Shut up, you moron!" roared Gaston Defferre, 56, a Socialist Deputy and mayor of Marseille. Those were fighting words to Gaullist Deputy René Ribière, 45, and after all the political caterwauling had died down in France's National Assembly, he confronted the Socialist to demand satisfaction. Despite friends' pleas to forget the nonsense, Ribière chose swords, they both chose seconds and met next day at noon in suburban Neuilly. "This is not a comedy," growled Defferre. "I am not going to stop until I'm hors de combat." "Oh, really?" gulped Ribi...
...guet Aircraft, second largest French planemaker after Dassault. Floirat is under Gaullist pressure to sell Bréguet to Dassault, and will soon do so. "If I had enough money," he grumbles, "I'd buy out Dassault...
Welfare Year. The elections will probably have little effect on Gaullist policies. If anything, the new Assembly can be expected to give more support than ever to his drive for closer relations with Eastern Europe and more distant relations with the U.S. and NATO. If there are changes, they will be almost entirely in social and economic policy. De Gaulle has already promised the voters that 1967 will be the great "Annee Sociale"-Welfare Year. At some point after the Assembly opens, he will also probably make some changes in his Cabinet; Premier Georges Pompidou, who won handily...