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...liberal press and a censorship by a literally authoritative opposition"--an opposition which until a few years ago was exemplified by the overwhelming majority of French publishing houses under intolerant Communist control. The "oppressed" writers, consequently, were more often than not afraid of being denounced in Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur and other leftist publications. Or they feared that their works might be banned by the Ministry of Culture. The heretics uncomfortably remained under the curfews of silence...
...asked about their attachment to the type of society we have at present give an affirmative response. Moreover, other polls show that the voters place more confidence for the management of their economy in the present government than in the opposition. A poll in the [leftist weekly] Nouvel Observateur indicates that I lead Mr. Mitterrand by twelve points on confidence in the management of the economy and, still more interesting, that I even lead him among those earning the minimum wage...
...Giscard d'Estaing and Jacques Chirac, the Gaullist mayor of Paris. Until mid-September virtually every public opinion poll in France indicated that the leftist alliance would win a majority of the seats in the March 1978 elections. But according to a study by the pro-Socialist weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, the Giscard-Chi-rac coalition would win 246 National Assembly seats to 241 for the Socialists and Communists if elections were held today...
...reaction has been sharp. The usually left-leaning daily Le Monde has gamely praised the "passionate challenge" raised by the New Philosophers. But the socialist Le Matin has flatly condemned their thinking as "elegant despair" and "a banal form of dandyism." A commentator in the pro-Socialist Nouvel Observateur blasted the New Philosophers as mere "disc jockeys of ideas...
Italians are presumably no more vulnerable to bugging than are other Europeans. The French National Assembly passed a law forbidding all phone tapping three years ago, but, as Nouvel Observateur notes, "nothing has changed since the law was passed." The government goes right on bugging, with the help of some of the equipment that the Gestapo left behind in 1944. Not only do the authorities tap the phones of specific suspects, but there are permanent taps even on public phone booths in cafes near major ministerial offices. Tapping is limited, according to one expert, only by a "shortage of funds...