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...grain surplus, finally announced last month that if the problem was not settled soon, it would "cease to participate" in the Common Market-a typically Delphic threat that could mean anything from the "empty chair" technique to outright repudiation of the Rome Treaty. Last week, with a grand Gaullist flourish, the French initialed a $700 million trade agreement with Moscow, further irritating its Common Market partners by giving Russia easy credit terms that most other NATO nations consider strategically unwise...
...that the only feasible political union must be a loose confederation of sovereign states, convinced Europeans such as Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak have clung to the ideal of a single, truly supranational U.S. of Europe. ("Spaakistan!" snorts De Gaulle.) Recently, however, Spaak has come round to the Gaullist approach, at least as a practical first step toward ultimate integration. Moreover, at week's end there were signs that Charles de Gaulle might also be in a mood for compromise. After an hour's chat with his old antagonist at the Elysée Palace, the ebullient...
...hemisphere, and that Venezuela is disturbed by French trade with Cuba. The joint communiqué was limited to bland assurances of mutual esteem and wishes for world peace. French loans for Venezuelan development? There was little talk of that. "They need experts more than money," sniffed one high-ranking Gaullist...
Hardly the stuffy image of a traditional French Cabinet minister, Giscard skis, swims, pilots a plane, has even been known to ride the Paris subway to work. Hardly even a Gaullist for that matter, Giscard heads his own 35-man Republican Independent Party in Parliament. Today it provides the Gaullist coalition its effective majority. When De Gaulle is gone, it could become the base upon which Giscard might mount his own campaign for the last big prize left: the presidency of France...
...known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly $750,000, The Fortune Teller by the belatedly discovered 17th century French master, Georges de La Tour. Redmond himself spotted this buy, but how the export license was arranged has never been revealed. When the Met wants something, it can pounce like...