Word: poniatowski
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...French President perceived a desire for fundamental change, his response was, well, a bit restrained. The most striking feature of the new Cabinet was not the new faces but the missing ones. Gone were three ministers who represented the principal political groups in the coalition: Independent Republican Michel Poniatowski, an outspoken crony of Giscard's who was Minister of the Interior; Centrist Jean Lecanuet, Minister of Planning; and Gaullist Olivier Guichard, Justice Minister. The three are expected to turn their attention to preparing next year's campaign at the grass-roots level. Although six portfolios changed hands...
Ordinarily, the detention of a suspected Arab terrorist would have been cleared with Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski and probably with President Giscard himself. But Poniatowski apparently discovered that Abu Daoud was in DST hands only a couple of hours before the West German Interior Minister called him to say that Bonn wanted the Palestinian held, pending a formal extradition request...
Within a week of the crime, Minister of the Interior Michel Poniatowski announced proudly at a press conference that "the catch of the [police] net is completed." With that, Police Commissioner Pierre Ottavioli disclosed that the mastermind of the crime was one Pierre de Varga, De Broglie's Hungarian-born partner in several questionable business enterprises. An accomplice, according to police, was another partner, Patrick Allenet de Ribemont. De Broglie had arranged a loan of $800,000 to both men to buy a Paris restaurant, La Ròtisserie de la Reine Pédauque, in which the prince...
Prostitution is legal in France, but soliciting customers is not. It always has been a difficult distinction to make in practice, and last week the angry prostitutes of Lyon decided that the police were trampling on their rights. As part of Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski's general crackdown on vice, local police had been regularly pulling in Lyon's lovelies and fining them $40 for "conduct tending to provoke debauchery." In protest, some 200 prostitutes from the Lyon area camped with sleeping bags in the 15th century St.-Nizier church and announced that they would continue to occupy...
...that spread to the entire mail system, paralyzing thousands of dependent businesses. In the past fortnight meanwhile, coal miners, railway men, electric-utility workers, hospital employees, customs officials, Paris bus drivers and even veterinarians have walked off their jobs for at least a day. Last week Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski outraged union leaders by sending in police to oust picketers from postal facilities. As a result, a majority of France's 21 million workers are expected to respond to a union call for a 24-hour general strike this week...