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...Chief Georges Marchais last week called the nation's Minister of Justice, Alain Peyrefitte, "a liar.'' "That's a good start," responded the Minister mildly. A few days later, Premier Raymond Barre derisively branded Marchais an "Ali Baba," whose economic program was pure fantasy. Socialist Party Leader Fraçois Mitterrand reproached his supposed allies, the Communists, for insulting him. "That's a simple lie," retorted the Communist daily L'Humanité. Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac had earlier described as an unsavory plot the alliance of small parties supporting President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...fair, the French have rarely been so saturated with politics. This will be their fourth trip to the polls in the past five years. The present campaign really began four years ago when the Socialists' Mitterrand barely missed (by 300,000 votes) defeating Giscard for the presidency. Since then, in cantonal and municipal elections, the Socialist-Communist alliance has gained impressive strength; Communist mayors now rule 75 cities. Seven months ago the dynamic left appeared an easy winner over the squabbling governing coalition in the elections. But when the Communists broke with their Socialist partners last September, the political mood...
...type of society we have at present give an affirmative response. Moreover, other polls show that the voters place more confidence for the management of their economy in the present government than in the opposition. A poll in the [leftist weekly] Nouvel Observateur indicates that I lead Mr. Mitterrand by twelve points on confidence in the management of the economy and, still more interesting, that I even lead him among those earning the minimum wage...
...Program and planned by the leaders of the opposition would not have ruinous consequences for the French economy. The Socialists can obviously engage in doubletalk, making demagogic promises and then letting it be known that they are the best rampart against Communism. But if the promises made by Mr. Mitterrand are fulfilled in the first weeks following an opposition victory, and if the first session of the new National Assembly is devoted to nationalization of a large number of French companies, it would mean inflation, an increased trade deficit, depreciation of the franc, and the disorganization of production...
Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand claims that the 1978 price of the wage and welfare package will be $8.3 billion. Premier Raymond Barre contends that the entire Common Program would cost $32.7 billion. According to Barre, Mitterrand is "a pyromaniac masquerading as a fire fighter," whose extravagant schemes will destroy the center-right government's economic achievements...