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Giaimo now talks about creating specific guidelines to govern the way the CBO releases its reports-meaning a muzzle for its chief...
...reluctantly accepted the Moscow position only because the Soviets agreed to issue, at the time of SALT it's signing, what Vance described to newsmen in Geneva as "a statement of general principles which will govern the conduct of SALT III." According to the Secretary, this would amount to a Soviet "commitment" to negotiate deep cuts in strategic arsenals. As for the U.S. cruise missile and the Soviet Backfire bomber-contentious issues that have contributed significantly to the 2½year deadlock in the arms talks-it was apparently decided to ignore them in a SALT II treaty. Instead...
...forced smile flickered occasionally across the President's lean, aristocratic face as he spoke into the television cameras. "The people of France sent a message to those who govern you. I have received it." So saying, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ordered Premier Raymond Barre-who had resigned only an hour earlier-to form a new Cabinet. Giscard, who was on the defensive after his governing coalition's stunning defeat in last month's municipal elections, defined the goals for the government: 1) mapping the country's economic recovery and 2) charting a program...
...Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti managed last week to keep his minority Christian Democratic government afloat-but only just. The leaders of the Communists and other left-wing parties indicated that they would end their tacit support of Andreotti's government if he tried to impose new austerity measures on the country to qualify for a $530 million loan from the International Monetary Fund. The Premier could scarcely ignore their warning: he has been able to govern for the past six months only because the opposition has abstained from voting on key issues in the parliament. To save his government...
...election results presage troublesome times for the President, whose ability to govern rests on a coalition of center-right parties in the National Assembly. Although his term still has four years to go, he faces parliamentary elections in the spring of 1978. If the left bloc wins a majority of the seats, the Communists will almost certainly be brought into the national government for the first time since...