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...Onetime Gaullist. Born at Marsi-llargues, 80 miles west of Marseille, Defferre took his law degree at Aix-en-Provence, joined the Resistance during the war, served for a time as a Gaullist in North Africa. After the Liberation, Defferre was elected mayor of Marseille, has served continuously in Parliament since 1946, and was a decolonizer long before De Gaulle: the 1956 loi-cadre, giving autonomy to France's African empire, was Defferre's creation...
Crossed Neckties. Even before the assassination, the problem was on the minds of 3,000 Gaullist delegates who gathered in Nice during the fatal weekend in a valiant effort to create a young, forward-looking image for De Gaulle's party. The outward trappings were fondly assumed to be à l'americaine: blue-suited hostesses, party emblems, name tags for delegates, neckties imprinted with the Cross of Lorraine. After the stunning news of Kennedy's death flashed through the meeting hall, Party Secretary Jacques Baumel noted that De Gaulle now was "one of the last great captains...
...Gaullist Deputy, Achille Peretti, is pressing for a different system. Under his plan, as in the U.S., a Vice President would be elected at the same time as the President and "would also derive his authority directly from the nation. There would be two names on the ballot." But in President De Gaulle's opinion, picking a successor through new elections is better, because it would provide a leader chosen in his own right, with a full term of office before him and a firm mandate behind him. At week's end, Charles de Gaulle...
...also reported considering a referendum to switch interim powers from the head of the Senate to the President of the far more representative National Assembly. This would neatly displace Monnerville as provisional chief of the government in favor of Assembly President Jacques Chaban-Delmas, a fervent and able Gaullist...
...Students. The Gaullist government is frantically building 42,000 more university places. That is less than half the need, and not a single new place is being added at the University of Paris, which has 100,000 students in its five colleges in the Latin Quarter. Hardest-hit is the age-blackened Sorbonne,* the Paris college of letters, which was built for 10,000 students and now has 32,000. The Sorbonne has only 100 professors to do all the lecturing. It has only half a dozen seminar rooms; the 600 sociology students hold their seminars in a room with...