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Pompidou's choice of ombudsman has been greeted with hostility and hilarity. Out of retirement came 81-year-old former Premier Antoine Pinay, a cautious conservative who is remembered chiefly as the "savior of the franc" while serving as De Gaulle's Finance Minister. Critics charge that Pinay's appointment is purely political; he is honorary president of the Républicains Indépendants, the Gaullists' chief allies in government. "We would have taken him more seriously," remarked the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaine, "if he had been five or six years older." Noting that...
...their dreams to the ideal of European unity. Jean Monnet, 80, "the father of the Common Market," last week convened a session of his nonofficial Action Committee for a United States of Europe in Brussels. Former Common Market President Walter Hallstein was there, along with veteran French Politicians Antoine Pinay and Maurice Faure and dozens of other ranking European statesmen. Together, they constitute a sort of European shadow government. They had come to Brussels in an attempt to spur Common Market bureaucrats and the respective ministers of the Six (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany) to start...
...Giscard d'Estaing, 43, Finance Minister, was Pompidou's second choice for the job, after Antoine Pinay, France's personification of financial stability, turned the post down. Giscard was an obvious alternative, if a controversial one to loyal Gaullists, who dubbed him "Giscariot" after he opposed De Gaulle in the April referendum. Brilliant, rich and openly ambitious, Giscard affects an image à la Kennedy, has had himself photographed skiing France's Grande-Motte glacier and hunting wild boar in the Soviet Union. During his four years as De Gaulle's Finance Minister, he imposed drastic...
...those voters who backed candidates eliminated in Round 1 choose between the two survivors. He already has the endorsement of his own centrist party; besides Defferre, the pivotal backers that could broaden his base include former Premier Pierre Mendès France, a socialist, and former Finance Minister Antoine Pinay, a conservative - both of whom paid calls on him last week. The Communists have not fielded a presidential candidate since 1946, and their current choice, a 7 3-year-old Stalinist fixture named Jacques Duclos, drew only 10% of the poll vote -about half the strength they normally show...
...Beaches. Pinay's coyness mirrored De Gaulle's own. Le general cannily intends to withhold his own election plans until the last moment, but nobody much doubts that he will try for another seven-year term.*Nor does anyone doubt that he can succeed. Still, two candidates from the right and one from the left, plus an obscure entry from the farmers' lobby, have leaped into the ring...