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...Europeans have another reservation about détente. They are worried that a "superpower condominium" will settle major issues without consulting them. Former French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, for instance, believed that détente was not really a relaxation of tensions but an equilibrium of power, "a kind of modus vivendi in the management of world affairs between the U.S. and the Soviet Union." Jobert was probably right, at least in part, but the Europeans cannot realistically expect an equal voice with Moscow and Washington
Three top posts in Giscard's 15-member Cabinet are held by fellow E.N.A. alumni: Premier Jacques Chirac ('59), Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski ('48) and Finance Minister JeanPierre Fourcade ('54). In addition, Giscard's three key aides are also graduates, as is Chirac's chief adviser, Jacques Friedmann ('59). The appearance of so many men from E.N.A. at the levers of real political power has brought unaccustomed-and mostly unwanted-attention to the small but supremely influential school. Wryly commenting on France's apparent change from a republic to a tight little...
...MICHEL PONIATOWSKI, 52, Minister of State and Minister of Interior. "Ponia," as he is known everywhere, is Giscard's closest friend and crony in or out of the government. A patrician with royal Polish ancestry-one of his forebears was a marshal in Napoleon's army-Ponia-towski has known Giscard since student days, and he is distantly related to Giscard's wife. He helped Giscard set up his Independent Republican Party in 1966. Well before Pompidou's death, Poniatowski had worked quietly to line up the centrist parties' support that proved so crucial...
JEAN SAUVAGNARGUES, 59, Foreign Minister. Calm and smoothly professional, Sauvagnargues (pronounced sew-va-nyarg) should bring a sharp change in tone to French diplomacy. His predecessor, Michel Jobert, delighted in public jousting with Washington over oil and Middle East policy-a performance that Pompidou felt was necessary to please his restive Gaullist constituency...
WEDDING IN BLOOD. Two married lovers (Stephane Audran, Michel Piccoli) are driven by their shared need and the transports of passion to commit murder. This woebegone plot, written and directed by the sometimes masterly Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher), needs all the voltage it can stand. From Chabrol and his stars, it gets only a few anemic charges. The paramours are intrepidly bourgeois, their longing for each other so squalidly selfish and narcissistic that every time they paw each other they seem to be polishing a mirror. They lavish the sort of affection and attention on each other that...