Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Common Drive. "You should not declare anathema what you do not know," answered French Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, who has made himself chief spokesman for the Southern Socialist position. He argued that Western Europe's Communist parties are changing, becoming more independent of Moscow, sloughing off archaic Stalinist ideology. Socialists, therefore, can safely ally themselves with Communists in a common leftist drive for power. Mitterrand's views have been challenged as being too ingenuous about Communist intentions, most recently in The Totalitarian Temptation, a new book by disillusioned Socialist Jean-François Revel (TIME...
...between the center-right President and the leftist French unions had been delayed so long. As Finance Minister in the government of the late Georges Pompidou, Giscard was widely famed as an economic wizard-a reputation that was largely responsible for his narrow victory over Socialist François Mitterrand in last May's elections. Since then, despite Giscard's imposition of a classically conservative program of tightening credit, raising some taxes and holding down budget expenditures, the French economy has gradually deteriorated...
Skeptical French newspapers asked how Giroud, who supported Giscard's opponent, Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand, could be more than a "liberal window dressing of a conservative policy." Le Monde, however, approvingly noted that "if anyone knows the uncertainties of the position of French women, and struggled to overcome them, it is Francoise Giroud...
...Your description of the division of France into two parts [June 3], one monopolizing the bonne vie and therefore voting for Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the other one struggling and consequently backing François Mitterrand, is far too simple to be right...
...charge of my premises and an employee of the nearby fish shop, who are both small wage earners, voted for Giscard, while my 23-year-old son, a student with a future and by the way relieved of any worry about money problems, gave his vote to Socialist Mitterrand...