Word: pompidou
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...allies and partners seem to forget that France is not the sick man of Europe any more. Since 1958 we have had real leadership under General de Gaulle and President Pompidou. You forgot to say that the Nine had agreed upon the French position toward Kissinger's proposals. It turned out differently in Washington, and only Mr. Jobert represented the Community's former decisions. Can you call nationalistic an attitude respecting the agreements held among nine nations? France does not want the Community to become a U.S. satellite. It is David defending his people against Goliath...
London was not the only European capital to come down with a case of political instability. In Paris, French President Georges Pompidou decided that it was time for a change and replaced an old Cabinet with a new one headed by a not-so-nouveau Premier. In Rome, yet another shaken Italian coalition government fell-or, rather, was pushed into resigning. Items...
...reason for the change was Pompidou's determination to persuade his disenchanted countrymen that the regime plans to attack actively such major problems as inflation and mounting labor unrest. Still another aim, most observers suspect, is the determination of the President-who many Frenchmen believe will resign before the 1976 elections because of his ill health-to keep firm control of the government. By re-appointing Messmer, Pompidou made it clear that he is not yet ready to anoint a possible successor...
...that will demand both those oddly matched qualities. The French Ministry of Industry and Scientific Development has named him to take over the Lip watch factory in Besançon, which has become a symbol of revolution to French labor and industry and an embarrassment to the Pompidou government. Last spring, after Lip went bankrupt and rumors spread that some layoffs were planned, workers seized the plant and ran it for 68 days, selling watches at a 40% discount. The government ended that experiment by sending police to close the plant in August, but has been looking ever since...
Chaban-Delmas was forced out of the Premiership in 1972 because of disagreements with Pompidou and a scandal over his excessive use of income tax loopholes. Giscard, on the other hand, who is thought to be Pompidou's choice, is not formally a Gaullist at all but a member of the allied Independent Republican Party. Giscard, moreover, is responsible for the French economy, and, rightly or wrongly, he will be blamed if it falters in the months ahead. Both men have been quietly campaigning for months. Chaban-Delmas, the mayor of Bordeaux, has been looking to his power base...