Word: giscards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stoessinger could have added the names of Khomeini, Gaddafi, Khalid, Schmidt, Giscard, Ohira, Brezhnev, Lopez Portillo, Torrijos, Thatcher-all humans magnified mightily by the television lens, transposed into looming actors on a global stage...
Alan J. Pakula, W.V.O. Quine, Giscard D'Estaing and Seymour Slive...
...Summer International Seminar--a program that brought to Harvard rising stars in foreign policy and political, cultural and literary life from Europe and Asia to school them in American foreign policy and, within certain bounds, to promote "freedom of exchange." Men on the order of Pierre Trudeau and Valerie Giscard D'Estaing--who were then on the verge of international prominence--attended the seminar, discussed world affairs with foreign ministers from India and Pakistan, and heard lectures from American intellectual heavyweights like David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 and McGeorge Bundy, then...
...Gaullist resistance hero Jacques Chaban-Delmas had used legal loopholes to avoid paying income tax for three years, virtually killing his bid for the presidency in 1974. The Duck also unearthed some questionable financial dealings by the murdered Prince Jean de Broglie, a man with close ties to the Giscard administration, and printed the income tax dossiers of both Giscard and Aviation Tycoon Marcel Dassault. The government paid Le Canard a bumbling tribute one night when its agents were discovered in the paper's offices trying to implant bugging devices. "Watergaffe," quacked the Duck, and proudly proclaimed itself...
Investigative reporting in France is sharply restricted. Television stations are state-owned, and the national news service, Agence France Presse, is headed by a political ally of Giscard. Newspapers are vulnerable too, some because they have received government-guaranteed loans, others because they need the advertising directed their way by the state-controlled publicity conglomerate, Havas...