Word: giscards
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...latest tragedy marked an inauspicious beginning to the country's historic experiment in what the French call cohabitation. This refers to the power sharing that will now ensue between Mitterrand and France's resurgent conservatives, led by Chirac's neo-Gaullist R.P.R. and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy. At the outset, some observers feared that the odd coupling, a direct result of the March 16 parliamentary elections that gave the conservative coalition a narrow parliamentary majority, would produce only paralysis and instability. To others, it promised to usher in a new age of pragmatism...
...conservative opposition put no fewer than three major candidates on the road. Jacques Chirac, the former Premier and current mayor of Paris, stomped through farming country near Limoges and demanded new agricultural policies. Raymond Barre, another onetime Premier, was in Paris advocating the deregulation of French industries. And Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the former President, was urging unity among conservatives in the Pas de Calais area of the northwest...
...patrician Giscard, 60, has maintained a lower profile throughout the campaign. Last week was no exception, as he spent four days tromping through his native Auvergne region in central France, in addition to his time on the hustings in the north. At every stop he stressed that France needed strong and unified leadership from the right...
...father of Soviet Bolshevism, Lenin. That evening, it was Gorbachev's turn to entertain President Mitterrand and his wife Danielle at the stolid concrete Soviet embassy near the Bois de Boulogne. After his guests departed, the General Secretary held a late-night tete-a-tete with former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. The following morning Gorbachev returned to the embassy for meetings with, among others, French Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais...
...leaders of France's conservative opposition parties, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, former Premier Raymond Barre and former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, carefully refrained from attacking Mitterrand, who has come to symbolize France's commitment to nuclear independence. But their underlings were scathing. Said National Assembly Deputy Philippe Mestre: "Either the President was aware--in which case he has lied and this is Watergate--or he was not aware, in which case he's a fool." For Mitterrand it was a no-win situation. Having tasted political blood, the opposition appeared intent on keeping up the pressure to force...