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Marchais, 60, an aggressive, hard-lining former metalworker who has been party boss for the past eight years, seized the occasion to launch some characteristically hard-bitten attacks on the leading candidates. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, he proclaimed, was "the champion of the insolent and decadent aristocracy that dominates France." He reminded his audience that "the people rose up and assaulted the Bastille" in 1789, sweeping away "the old rotten regime." Then he turned with equal antagonism on the other main candidate, Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. Heaping scorn on his former partner...
...spoiler of the campaign. That role has taken on a bizarre urgency as the two-round election draws close. Polls indicate that in the first round, April 26, Mitterrand should handily defeat both Marchais and the fourth challenger, Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, and run a close second to Giscard...
...that event Giscard and Mitterrand would face each other in a May 10 runoff, and Marchais's Communists could be instrumental in swinging the outcome either...
...Western commercial banks to talk about rescheduling loan payments. In Brussels, the European Community agreed to sell Warsaw more meat, dairy products and grain at 15% below the market price. Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski flew to Paris and Washington. The veteran negotiator met with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing and won a pledge of $800 million in aid, plus shipments of surplus wheat. In Washington, Jagielski was received by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Vice President George Bush; they promised to sell Warsaw 50,000 tons of surplus butter and dried milk and to consider cooperating...
...Giscard lieutenants, who only the day before had talked smugly about remaining above the fray, could no longer contain themselves. Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet blasted Mitterrand for his lack of patriotism and the "rudeness of his expression." Fumed Prime Minister Raymond Barre: "As a Frenchman, I was revolted...