Word: michell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specific target of their wrath was Defense Minister Michel Debré, whose new draft law ended student deferments for anyone over 21. The police reacted sternly to the protest, in some cases clubbing down the students, but the next day, not entirely by coincidence, Debré let it be known that he would not be a member of President Georges Pompidou's new Cabinet. The same day, it was announced that the controversial Loi Debré would be reconsidered...
...Easy End. The greatest surprise in the new Cabinet was small, balding Michel Jobert, 51, named Foreign Minister to replace Maurice Schumann, who had been defeated in the general election. A discreet but demanding and sometimes caustic former civil servant, little known to the public, Jobert joined Pompidou's personal staff ten years ago. At the Elysee Palace, he has functioned as Pompidou's Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Kissinger. Jobert, who has an American wife and a son in the American School of Paris, won himself many friends in Washington by helping with the difficult arrangements for the secret...
Back then, the cry was, "De Gaulle to the museum!" This time the target, like the crowds, was much smaller. "Debré salaud, on aura ta peau!" (Debré, you bastard, we'll have your hide). Gaullist Defense Minister Michel Debré, a perennial villain of the French left, was under fire for sponsoring the new draft...
Whatever else Sharp's trip may accomplish, it inspired one of the most remarkable cocktail parties ever held in Saigon. Staged by Canada's effervescent chief ICCS delegate, Michel Gauvin, it attracted 200 guests representing an unprecedented assortment of former enemies. On hand was TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott to take a few surreptitious notes...
...suspicions of the Gaullists were partially justified. As Le Canard Enchainé's film critic Michel Duran wrote: "You come out of the film not very proud to be one of those Frenchmen with a perpetual weakness for military men who offer themselves as a gift to France . . . Frenchmen, if you only knew that you are forever being cuckolded...