Word: giscards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reiterate China's desire to open up to the West. The Chairman also expressed his support for both the European Community and NATO in the common struggle against "hegemonism," Peking's code word for Moscow's expansionist ambitions. In a long-winded toast delivered at Giscard's welcoming dinner, Hua reeled off a list of Soviet sins, without once mentioning China's Communist archrival by name. He declared: "In Europe a serious state of military confrontation continues. In the Middle East, in Africa, in the Red Sea area, in southern Asia and in Indochina, ever...
...nuclear reactors worth $2 billion. The ebbing commercial ties reflect not only France's inability to compete successfully with such industrial rivals as West Germany and Japan, but perhaps also Peking's displeasure with French reluctance to supply China with modern weaponry, including Mirage fighter planes. Giscard has pointedly rejected Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's plea for a total ban on weapons sales to China, but so far no deals have been made...
...Enchaîné-literally, The Chained Duck-which pursues scandal with all the gusto of a Gallic gourmet tucking into a baba au rhum. These days the Chained Duck is flapping its wings triumphantly, and no wonder: dangling from its bill is the meticulously aloof French President, Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
...last two issues, Le Canard charged that Giscard, both when he was Finance Minister and after he became President in 1974, had graciously accepted 50 carats in diamonds-the first 30 alone valued at $240,000-from Jean-Bedel Bokassa, the sadistic former "Emperor" of the Central African Republic...
Bokassa reportedly also gave state gifts to Giscard's brother, two of the President's cousins, a top adviser and a pair of Cabinet ministers. Tart and punful as always, the Duck dubbed the affair "Giscarat...