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Ensconced in his office at the Elysée Palace, Mitterrand followed the example of an Olympian predecessor, Charles de Gaulle, and stayed nobly above the battle. He continued to pursue a skillful dual strategy of playing to his left-wing constituency, while reassuring skeptics that he would not go off on a Marxist bender...
Meanwhile British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who never concealed her dislike for the Olympian Giscard, was hopeful that London could now strengthen its hand in European affairs with the weakening of the Paris-Bonn relationship...
...contest for the French presidency approached its critical second round, the nation's two veteran political challengers pitched into what promised to be a bruising, strictly two-way brawl to the finish. Center-Right Candidate Valery Giscard d'Estaing was the first to drop his customary Olympian hauteur. In a series of campaign rallies last week, France's incumbent President denounced Socialist Contender Francois Mitterrand as a captive of the Communists. "From now on," Giscard told his supporters in Dole, "whether he wants to or not, whether he knows it yet or not, Monsieur Mitterrand is also...
...women close out their dual-meet season--they are 1-1--on Saturday with a finale against the Elis. Yale fields Pat Milton, who is devastating in the short sprints and a potential Olympian, but Hunt prognosticates a 65-62 victory for the Crimson...
...ever asked me the question." He said that the diamonds had been sold, and the proceeds donated to charity. That donation, it turned out was made only a month before Giscard's explanation-and a full 15 months after the issue was first raised. Giscard's Olympian conception of his office reaches even into the protocol of the Elysée Palace. At state dinners he has been known to insist on the regal deference of being served first even when his guests include national leaders and women. One guest happened to be both: British Prime Minister Margaret...