Word: poniatowski
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Finally, France's new Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski admitted last week what everyone has known all along: the police have no time to read the millions of fiches filed each month. And so, amid cheers and kisses, the practice is about to be abolished...
Three top posts in Giscard's 15-member Cabinet are held by fellow E.N.A. alumni: Premier Jacques Chirac ('59), Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski ('48) and Finance Minister JeanPierre Fourcade ('54). In addition, Giscard's three key aides are also graduates, as is Chirac's chief adviser, Jacques Friedmann ('59). The appearance of so many men from E.N.A. at the levers of real political power has brought unaccustomed-and mostly unwanted-attention to the small but supremely influential school. Wryly commenting on France's apparent change from a republic to a tight little...
...MICHEL PONIATOWSKI, 52, Minister of State and Minister of Interior. "Ponia," as he is known everywhere, is Giscard's closest friend and crony in or out of the government. A patrician with royal Polish ancestry-one of his forebears was a marshal in Napoleon's army-Ponia-towski has known Giscard since student days, and he is distantly related to Giscard's wife. He helped Giscard set up his Independent Republican Party in 1966. Well before Pompidou's death, Poniatowski had worked quietly to line up the centrist parties' support that proved so crucial...
...years Poniatowski had been a vocal and witty critic of the Gaullist party, though it was a role that he found somewhat difficult to play after Pompidou named him Health Minister 14 months ago. He complained that the party's paternalism was becoming mere arrogance, that France itself was catching "the Gaullist disease, which is to live on the past, on traditions, on dogmas...
...Interior Minister, he will have a chance to practice what he has long been preaching about civil liberties. One reason for the quick action on wiretapping was the fact that Poniatowski's own phone, as he discovered to his rage one day last year, had been one of 5,000 that were routinely tapped by Interior Ministry eavesdroppers for years...