Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general discontent have all flowed to the United Left. Georges Marchais, 52, the bluff-spoken Communist leader, made major concessions when he agreed to form the union with the Socialists, a coalition of nonCommunist, leftist parties reorganized in 1965 by an old De Gaulle foe, François Mitterrand, 56. As a result, the union program is rather more socialist than Communist; it calls for nationalization of banks, insurance companies and major firms in "strategic industries." Even so, the prospect of even more government control in an economy that is already 12% nationalized worries many Frenchmen. At the voting booth...