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...leftist press too has begun to be concerned that Mitterrand's ideological commitments may be getting more of his attention than the harsh realities of a troubled economy. "These first 120 days have too often left an impression of drift and improvisation," the pro-Socialist daily Le Matin editorialized. "We are waiting for the head of state to focus on the priority of priorities: overcoming the economic crisis...
...editorial, the paper observed: "Brezhnev got what he wanted. The Soviet press will present [Giscard's] presence in Warsaw as meaning the end of the quarantine in which the Kremlin's leadership has been locked for five months since the rape of Afghanistan." The left-wing Le Matin de Paris suggested that Giscard could be "the first Western leader to consent to a slow process of Finlandization in Western Europe." In a Page One banner, the counterculture newspaper Libération awarded the French President the Lenin peace prize...
...group before the explosion, and French authorities dismissed its claims. But by imposing a blackout on news of the police investigation, government officials inspired speculation in the press about possible, and some rather impossible, culprits. France Soir reported that the police believed "extreme leftists" had planted the explosives. Le Matin de Paris suggested that the act had been committed by Palestinians working on behalf of Libya. The newsweekly Le Point hinted that the CIA might have been involved, and Le Nouvel Observateur insinuated that the French secret service had set the charges...
...comments that provoked Young's bosses-as well as the U.S. Congress and many Western leaders-appeared in the French socialist daily Le Matin, just as Jimmy Carter was protesting the trials of Soviet Dissidents Shcharansky and Ginzburg. Asked about the trials, Young said it was difficult to predict the fate of the dissidents, and then added that in U.S. prisons there are "hundreds, maybe thousands of people I would categorize as political prisoners." He said: "Ten years ago, I myself was tried in Atlanta for having organized a [civil rights] protest movement. And three years later...
When it was all over, the newlyweds successfully escaped from the palace undetected and were whisked away to a honeymoon site that Junot had cleverly kept secret from everyone, including Caroline. And so, as the left-wing French newspaper Le Matin headlined the story, "Caroline Grimaldi, whose father carried 17 titles, will become Mme. Junot. What a victory for democracy!" Or for love...