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...party congress, former Research and Industry Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, leader of one of the party's left-wing factions, called for a more radical, reflationary and protectionist economic course. Chevènement, who was forced to resign from his cabinet post this year after opposing austerity, claimed the support of close to 20% of the delegates. The consensus of the congress, following Mitterrand's lead, was that rigor had to be sustained for another year or more, but that ways must be found to ease the pain of economic sacrifice. Mitterrand and the party leadership...
...government is that its 1981 attempt at expansion created first inflation and then a huge trade deficit. Chevalier said that a split in Socialist Party ranks continues between supporters of Finance Minister Jacques Delors's austerity program and left-wingers like former Industry Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, who favor spurring demand at any cost. In view of the government's severe financial straits, Chevalier noted, no alternative exists to the present, unpopular squeeze...
...head of the party's left wing is Jean-Pierre Chevènement, 42, who helped Mitterrand engineer the rapprochement with the Communists in the early 1970s. In 1979 he gained new power in the party by rallying to the defense of Mitterrand against the challenge of Rocard and Mauroy. Still, the all-important negotiations with the Communists will be conducted not by Chevènement but by Lionel Jospin, 43, Mitterrand's successor as the first secretary of the party...
...Latin vespers' chant rose majestic and sonorous. Notre Dame seemed every moment less a church of man, and more the infinite, spacious House of God. Then Paul Claudel was suddenly upon his knees. . . . "Alors se produisit," he has said, "I'événement qui domine tout ana vie. This, of all my life, was the dominant moment. My heart was touched. Je crus-I believed! . . . Blinding, ineffable, had come the revelation. I had realized the heart-rending innocence, the eternal childhood...