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...penalty in France last year. In the other was his fellow Socialist, longtime Marseille Mayor Gaston Defferre, who as Interior Minister is the country's top cop. Badinter was urging the National Assembly to abolish a much-hated law, inherited from the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, that increased the police's power to detain, search and even check identity papers almost at will. But Defferre insisted that he wanted "reinforcement of the powers of the police." In the midst of the debate, President François Mitterrand dictated the terms of peace...
...main qualification of Ambassador to France Evan Galbraith "is that he speaks French and is a friend of Giscard d'Estaing, who is out of power and is considered the archenemy of [Francois Mitter rand] the man who is running the country." Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb is an "eminent lawyer who speaks no Italian." As for Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin, he is "a Hollywood actor, and not a very good one at that...
Rome's new assertiveness dates from the four-nation summit of NATO members called by former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in Guadeloupe in 1979 to address the West's defense problems. But Italy was not invited. That humiliation produced lingering resentment and a determination to shake off Italy's image as an inconsequential nation...
...Polish crisis. There must not be any weakness in the face of those who suppress the Polish people. There are leaders in Europe-I won't mention their names-who, while Afghanistan was being occupied, met with Brezhnev in Warsaw [former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing] or Moscow [West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt], This, to me, was an act of weakness...
...small town of Chamalières, France, the expensively tailored resident quietly slipped into city hall to register his candidacy for the job of local conseiller général (commissioner). The post is minor, but the candidate, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 56, is anything but. After nine months of private life following his defeat by Francois Mitterrand's Socialist Party last May, Giscard has returned once again to the stump. Though the former President is taking his mini-campaign seriously, he eschews his old trappings of higher office: chauffeured limousines, bodyguards...