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Only in France has the current seemed to run the other way. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, after years of bending over backward to avoid offending the Soviets, has belatedly realized that his foreign policy was out of tune with public opinion. The French voter has become increasingly wary of Moscow's motives in the wake of Afghanistan and the outbreak of unrest in Poland. Consequently, the election-minded President has executed a swift about-face. Since France is not a member of NATO's military command, it has no direct role...
...conservative parties, was expected. More surprisingly, French officials described François-Poncet's talks with Secretary of State Haig and Reagan as chaleureuses re-trouvailles (warm rediscoveries) of friendship. Relations between Washington and Paris cooled during the Carter years, and particularly so after President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing proved notably slow and mild in condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...Union if it invaded Poland. What has changed? Said François-Poncet: "The new element is that there is a new Administration. For long the U.S. sought protégés in Europe. This Administration is looking for associates." Perhaps. But attitudes have shifted in Paris too. Giscard, who faces a tough battle for re-election in two months, is aware he is out of step with French public opinion, which has turned anti-Soviet in the past year...
...campaign to keep the process alive. Two weeks ago, he addressed the European Parliament in Luxembourg, where he solicited Europe's help in persuading both Israelis and Palestinians to accept "mutual and simultaneous recognition." Afterward, he stopped over in Paris for talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Last week Sadat stoked the fires again: he renewed a long-forgotten, highly controversial proposal that Palestinians create a government in exile...
...tente has indisputable validity. The word means nothing more controversial than the reduction of tensions between nations in order to reduce the danger of war. Each superpower may have the penultimate goal of defeating the other, but the shared, ultimate goal of both is to survive. (French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, from whose language détente was borrowed, has proposed "stability" as an alternative.) détente also implies that the U.S. and its allies can use their economic leverage. Because of the inherent weakness of the Soviet economy, the West can offer deals to induce restraint...