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Movement for Reform Leader: Edgard Pisani, 49 Seats: 1 Candidates...
...Movement is a new anti-Gaullist group formed by bearded ex-Gaullist Pisani, who resigned from the Cabinet over last year's successful government bid for special decree powers to deal with France's economic problems. His final break with De Gaulle came when he voted for last month's censure motion. The Movement is the freshest Centrist answer to the Gaullist/Communist dilemma, with a program of dialogue, decentralization and economic planning. Prospects: Pisani expects to win no more than five seats, then build for the future...
...Edgar Pisani, De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister (1961-66), defected from the Gaullist U.N.R. Party in order to support the censure. In a highly emotional speech, he damned the Gaullists for letting the situation "pourrir" (go to pot). "Your government," he cried, "had all the forces, all the chances that French governments have always lacked. It took credit for peace, for monetary stability, for increasing investments, for institutions adapted to the modern world. But this government was not able to foresee, to cope. It was preoccupied with lasting rather than governing." Socialist Mitterrand boldly proposed to take over...
...expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger-than-ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned in protest against the government's attempt to rule by decree. He was the first French Cabinet member in five years to quit...
...experts, headed by Dr. Frances O. Kelsey, keep track of new drugs under investigation, and a separate team decide when these drugs should be approved for general prescription use. All this was too much for Dr. Sadusk. Last week he precipitately quit, as did his No. 2, Dr. Joseph Pisani. To replace Sadusk temporarily, Dr. Goddard named Dr. Robert Robinson, 46, a Negro who had been two rungs down the bureaucratic ladder...