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Breakfasting with 50 students at the Union yesterday morning, former President of France Valery Giscard D'Estaing tried to put students at ease by asking them what careers they are preparing for. But Giscard was surprised at their non committal responses...
Later, in an interview at the institute of Politics, which he is visiting for three days, Giscard said an official housing the function had to remind him that young people make career decisions in the United States much later than in France...
...United States, students study a subject for their general education, while in France they adjust their studies to prepare for jobs, which are not numerous," Giscard said...
...minute interview covered a wide range of topics, including the economy and nuclear arms, which Giscard feels is not as much of an issue in France as in Germany...
...abrupt expulsions seemed long overdue to French counterintelligence services. Former Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin revealed that in 1971, when Georges Pompidou was President, he had proposed the expulsion of 150 Soviet and East European agents, but that it was decided not to jeopardize relations with the Soviets. Under Giscard, the argument prevailed that it is better to keep spies who are already identified and known rather than throw them out and have to start anew ferreting out replacements. Accordingly, over the past 20 years France, publicly at least, had expelled only 15 Soviet officials...