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Bill Staines, Dave Mollet--Passim...
Died. Guy Mollet, 69, Socialist Premier of France from January 1956 to June 1957; following a heart attack; in Paris. In 1956, Mollet collaborated with Britain's Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the British-French attack on the Suez Canal in coordination with an Israeli invasion of the Sinai from the east...
...Guerre d'Algérie, which is playing to packed houses in Paris. Reliving the war has proved to be a shattering experience for many viewers, and reactions range from stunned silence to horror and disgust. Shouts of "Salaud!" (bastard) fill the theater when former Premier Guy, Mollet is shown defending his policy of keeping draftees in the army for 30 months instead of the legal term of 18 months. "When the lights go on at the end of the film, you sit there crushed, speechless, heartsick," wrote Critic Jean Planchais in Le Monde. "It is a film that...
...specific revulsion, periodically reinforced by events like Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Leningrad trials. Moscow, preoccupied with China and a stuttering economy, grudgingly gives the Western European parties greater autonomy than ever. But the Kremlin's influence is still so pervasive that for countless voters, as French Socialist Guy Mollet once remarked, "The Communists are not of the left but of the East." As long as that is true, Western Europe will continue to make a mockery of Lenin's expectations...
...finances, one of the elite corps of officials who supervise state spending. It is a position that normally opens the door to the highest echelons of the government and big business. By then, however, Rocard was already an active Socialist. In 1967, having split with Socialist Leader Guy Mollet over his part in placing De Gaulle in power in 1958. Rocard left the government to work as the only full-time employe of the P.S.U.-a distinction he still holds. The party claims only 15,000 followers...