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...conservative? Even his supporters disagree. Does he favor firmness or conciliation toward the Soviet Union? The answer is not clear; some of the President's policies seem refined to the point of ambivalence. Mitterrand accuses him of a monarchical style of government. Chirac, Giscard's former Premier, snipes away at what he sees as Giscard's vacillation and weakness in foreign affairs Michel Debré, a Premier under Charles de Gaulle and a marginal presidential candidate, accuses Giscard of "anesthetizing" France with reassurances instead of inspiring it to greater efforts...
...France, parliament has relatively little power. It has managed to discourage Giscard from pursuing some of his legislative projects. Since only 119 members of his 274-seat ruling parliamentary coalition are formal Giscard supporters, he has on occasion tactically withdrawn from a potential fray. Giscard's Premier, Raymond Barre, however has used special constitutional powers to ram through government budgets over the grumbling of Gaullist allies. Says Giscard: "I have exercised my powers as they are conferred by the constitution. These critics are trying to weaken power. I say it bluntly: those who want weak power in France should...
...many times must we stand on the brink of the precipice? What assurances do we have that one day we shall not fall into the abyss?" Even as he posed that grave question before Warsaw's parliament last week, Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski once again implored his fellow Poles to end the labor turmoil that has crippled the country for eight months and brought it perilously close to a Soviet invasion. This time the four-star general put teeth into his appeal by demanding a legislated, two-month ban against all strikes. Otherwise, Jaruzelski warned, he would be obliged...
...member derided the "merry-go-round" system whereby the same old faces dominated the Politburo. Kania responded by promising personnel changes in the Central Committee and Politburo. Similar rank-and-file pressures for reform appeared to be responsible for new "legal proceedings" that were initiated last week against former Premier Piotr Jaroszewicz. The charge: economic mismanagement...
...Stalin's victims, none would seem so obscure as the Soviet writers who were rounded up and murdered on the night of Aug. 12, 1952. It was the Premier's last act of anti-Semitic paranoia, and he made certain that if his victims were barely known in life, they would be totally obliterated in death. It was not enough that the victims were to vanish from society, they were also to disappear from history...