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...majority of the French, the time had come at last for a dramatic change in the nation's long-frozen political landscape. Seven years under patrician, aloof President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing were enough. Twenty-three years of government by the same center-right majority had proved too much. As if they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked...
Predicted Pollster Jerome Jaffre: "Most Chirac supporters will remain loyal to the center-right, but as many as one out of four may not." If Jaffre is right, more than a million neo-Gaullists voting against Giscard or abstaining in the second round could rob the President of reelection...
...back workers who had apparently recoiled from the way the Communists had torpedoed Mitterrand's 1978 attempt at a Socialist-Communist alliance. Even in this election, Marchais had appeared to direct the Communists' first-round campaign as much against Mitterrand-as "an obstacle to change"-as against Giscard. According to some analysts, the Communists are now supporting Mitterrand in the hope of ultimately sinking...
...Mitterrand in what promises to be one of the closest elections in French history. Though Marchais has continued to demand that Mitterrand accept Communist ministers in his prospective Socialist government, Mitterrand has cannily sidestepped the issue to avoid alarming moderate voters. Ridiculing Mitterrand's ambiguous stance last week, Giscard asked, "Why doesn't he answer Marchais directly when the latter asks for his share of government ministers? The reason: Mitterrand wants the votes of Communists and anti-Communists at the same time:" Giscard's rather derisive conclusion: "Mitterrand is seeking an impossible alliance between water and fire...
That same month, incensed over a negative story on his friend French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Goldsmith blocked distribution of his magazine in Europe...