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While 20,000 party members sipped beer, munched on páté sandwiches and applauded mightily in the vast Pavilion de Paris last week, France's fiery Communist chief Georges Marchais berated the enemy. No, not the Gaullists, but Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand, Marchais's partner in France's swiftly disintegrating leftist coalition. "Mitterrand has dismissed the case," he declared, referring to the collapse of talks between the parties on revising the common program, the coalition's campaign platform for the March 1978 elections. Shouted Marchais: "The Socialist Party's behavior shows that...
...same day, Mitterrand held forth before a mob of reporters and TV cameramen in a tapestry-lined, marble-walled room in the National Assembly building. Sounding a bit more conciliatory than Marchais, the Socialist leader offered the Communists "an extended hand and an open heart." Nonetheless, he made it clear that his party would not cave in to Communist demands for a platform threatening wholesale nationalization of French industry. "Indisputably," Mitterrand noted, "the political landscape is troubled...
...celebrities-featured on magazine covers and on TV talk shows. The New Philosophers have no wide popular following and are unlikely to have much impact on next March's elections, when France's Socialist-Communist coalition hopes to win power. Nonetheless, Socialist Party Chief François Mitterrand has promised to write a rebuttal to their views, which he says are "too important" for off-hand comment...
...President, Giscard, among other things, is chief of the armed forces and presides over the Cabinet. Elected in 1974, Giscard is aghast at the prospect of having to deal with left-wing ministers for the rest of his seven-year term. He urges Mitterrand to form a government that would include politicians who are not members of the leftist union. Mitterrand refuses, archly citing "a clear and precise contract" to carry out the left's common program-which calls for sweeping nationalization of private industry, big wage hikes and increased social benefits. Mitterrand, forming his Socialist-Communist Cabinet, appoints...
...while, things run smoothly enough. But then the regime's Socialist and Communist partners begin bickering. The Communists attack Mitterrand when he decides to refuse to nationalize a failing acetate firm, insisting that the party "has not come to power to close plants!" In turn, Mitterrand blasts the Communists as "demagogic and irresponsible...