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...first time since the popular front of 1936 France's leftist parties formed a limited, tactical alliance to help them gain seats in the Assembly. The two major groups -- the Federation of the Left under Francois Mitterand (the man who nearly defeated de Gaulle in the presidential elections of 1965) and the Communists -- agreed to present a single candidate in as many districts as possible so that the leftist vote would not be split...
European sympathizers from Algeria. But there was also left-wing Senator François Mitterand, the widow of famed Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, and two officers still on active service who saluted Salan...
...enthusiastic tales of such impressionable visitors as Britain's Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. In fact, even Red China's normally boastful leaders guardedly admit serious trouble. In his comfortable villa at Hangchow, Chairman Mao Tse-tung told France's ex-Cabinet Minister François Mitterand that he knew "Western newspapers have printed large headlines on what they call the famine in China." But it was not a famine, insisted Mao, only "a period of scarcity...
Each night, wherever he went, former Minister of the Interior François Mitterand was pelted with aged pears, tomatoes, oranges and occasional root vegetables selected for their hardness. Ex-Premier Mendès-France, breezing out of one rally to address another, narrowly dodged a left hook and threw one off-target in reply. The leader of the Union for Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, a motley, rowdy party standing against all candidates and most taxes, swore his followers to accept summary punishment up to and including death if found guilty of violating the party line. Another ex-Premier...