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Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, refuses to discuss the economic aspects of the negotiations. But others familiar with the talks are quick to point out that the union's comparison of itself to the local municipal forces is not necessarily accurate. Though Harvard's police are...
A forced smile flickered occasionally across the President's lean, aristocratic face as he spoke into the television cameras. "The people of France sent a message to those who govern you. I have received it." So saying, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ordered Premier Raymond Barre-who...
Curious Fatalism. Wherever he turns these days, Giscard seems to encounter hostility. True, he can count on the loyalty of Barre, whose down-to-earth, schoolmaster image has won a surprising amount of popularity. But Barre is essentially a technocrat without any political base. Now Barre has been given an...
> French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing found himself rejected by both left and right in the second round of his country's municipal elections. Socialist and Communist candidates, who posted impressive gains in the first stage of voting (TIME, March 28), last week triumphed in more...
The results brought personal satisfaction to Jacques Chirac, former Premier and head of the newly formed Assembly for the Republic. At a preelection rally in Paris' cavernous Palais des Sports, 5,000 Chirac supporters cheered wildly as the Gaullist mayoralty candidate reiterated his two campaign pledges: "Only we can...