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The precise nature of Giscard's liberalizing will become clear during the next few weeks, when he reveals his plans to deal with France's serious inflation (now 18%) and bring about his heralded "transformation of French society." But to judge by the Cabinet that Giscard trotted out...
As he had promised, Giscard brought a woman into his Cabinet. Simone Veil, 46, a prominent Paris jurist, was named Minister of Health. Three posts went to members of Giscard's small Independent Republican Party. No fewer than eight posts went either to nonpolitical civil servants or to leaders...
JACQUES CHIRAC, 41, Premier. More than a year ago, Chirac, then Minister of Agriculture, went out of his way to praise Giscard as "one of the rare statesmen today." After Pompidou's death, Chirac brashly defied the party barons by scorning the official Gaullist candidate, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and...
"Jacques the Knife," as Chirac is now known in some quarters, is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), stubborn, impatient, ill-tempered at times-and unusually effective in getting things done. Born into a well-to-do Paris family, Chirac began his rise to power in 1962, when at the age...
Jacques Cousteau. The French oceanographer's intimate profile of life in an octopus family. Ch. 5, 9 p.m. 1 hour.