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...about how long the party's independence from Moscow will last. They also fear that a triumph for the Communists in Italy would indeed have an impact on other countries-most notably France, where the party headed by Georges Marchais shares a Programme Commun with François Mitterrand's Socialists. Together, the two leftist parties gained more than 49% of the vote in the 1974 presidential elections. Others, however, believe that an Italian Communist success would only produce right-wing backlash in France...
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...
Last week in Paris, Mitterrand played host to a group of like-minded Southern Socialists, including party officials from Italy, Spain and Portugal, who called for a joint party strategy of all forces on the left. They argued that Southern Socialists, unlike their Northern counterparts, are out of office and stand little chance of gaining power on their own. Economic development is slow in Southern Europe, they point out; workers and unions are anxious for radical change, not Northern European reformism. Southern Communist parties are too strong to be ignored, unlike the small, peripheral parties of Northern Europe...
...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...