Word: mitterrand
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...fact, French pollsters had predicted an electoral victory of the left that would have given President Giscard the unhappy prospect of appointing a Socialist as his Premier and seeing Communists in the Cabinet. But a serious political falling-out between Communist Boss Georges Marchais and Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand seemed to sink that possibility; in an attempt to update their common program, the two could not agree on the extent to which some of the nation's top industries should be nationalized once the left assumed power...
With its aim of freeing the country "rom 75% of its imported energy requirements by 1985, the French government's nuclear power program is mighty ambitious-much too much so, many Frenchmen complain. Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand, who clearly plans to make the atom an issue in next March's elections, charges that the policy of headlong nuclear expansion was reckless, "launched like a railroad engine at 400 kilometers an hour." In August, some 30,000 protesters tried to slow the train down by staging a noisy demonstration at Super Phenix, the big French plutonium...
...fundamental. "It's a joke," says Centrist Jean-Louis Schneiter. "They have proved that Socialists and Communists cannot work together." The next act will probably be played out when Lamblin and Colin compete for leftist votes in the elections to the National Assembly. Whether or not Marchais and Mitterrand have been able to paper over their differences by then, it is a safe prediction that neither of their Reims lieutenants will base his campaign on local accomplishments during the past year of fraternal leftist rule...
...silence about the split, the Socialists are busy turning out books and pamphlets defending their position. Both sides refuse to compromise on the contentious issue of how much of French industry should be nationalized under the common program of a leftist government (TIME, Oct. 10). Declared Socialist Leader null Mitterrand: "Any new concession would be like tossing wood into the conflagration...
...popularity of President Giscard d'Estaing, whom many had written off as an ineffectual leader, incapable of uniting the center-right against the left. Another poll ?this one by the newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris?showed that Giscard would win 52% of the vote to 48% for Mitterrand in a presidential election. The same poll indicated that Mitterrand would clobber Chirac...