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...expressed by Picasso and donate the artist's valuable personal collection of great painters to the Louvre. Picasso jokingly referred to the collection, which includes 800 to 1,000 works by Corot, Courbet, Cézanne, Braque, Matisse and others, as "bric-a-brac," but Prime Minister Pierre Messmer quickly accepted the priceless gift on behalf of France...
...Cabinet that Premier Pierre Messmer announced later in the week also suggested that Pompidou may yet make the "opening" to the political center that he has frequently promised but never quite delivered since he came to power in 1969. The Cabinet suggested even more strongly an assertion of Pompidou's personal authority. Of the 22 members of the new government, five are making their first appearance in any French Cabinet, and fully half of the rest seem to be loyal, committed Pompidolians first and Gaullists second...
...Pompidou has called "bold reforms" in social policy. Still, there are no clear indications of what those reforms will be, or who will carry them out. Pompidou is not expected to announce his new government until the first week in April, when the new Assembly convenes. Caretaker Premier Pierre Messmer, 57, the frosty ex-soldier who replaced scandal-wreathed Jacques Chaban-Delmas last year, is a strong candidate for early retirement, even though Pompidou may keep him on for a few months for the sake of appearances...
Veteran Gaullist Olivier Guichard, 52, a baron and longtime Pompidou protége, could be in line for Messmer's job. Schumann's spot at the Quay d'Orsay could go to his smooth-mannered deputy, André Bettencourt, 53, who was named Acting Foreign Minister last week when Schumann resigned...
...Gaullists. Blithely ignoring a constitutional provision that France's President is above partisan politics, Georges Pompidou, in a television interview, spearheaded a Gaullist campaign designed to convince French voters that a leftist victory would mean chaos at best, a Communist takeover at worst. To which Gaullist Premier Pierre Messmer added a prediction that it would bring about "a demolition of the Fifth Republic...