Word: quotidien
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There has been a substantial rise in the popularity of President Giscard d'Estaing, whom many had written off as an ineffectual leader, incapable of uniting the center-right against the left. Another poll ?this one by the newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris?showed that Giscard would win 52% of the vote to 48% for Mitterrand in a presidential election. The same poll indicated that Mitterrand would clobber Chirac...
...road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty in the confusion. "What does beating up flics have to do with nuclear energy?" asked one disgusted demonstrator huddling in the chill rain. Scolded the newspaper Quotidien de Paris: "The notion of defense of the environment implies nonviolence...
Madrid might be muted. The ambassadors of Switzerland, Britain and West Germany, who had originally been withdrawn, were all back on the job in Madrid. The French leftist daily Quotidien de Paris reflected the serious second thoughts about Europe's earlier outburst. In a front-page article, it noted: "The reprobation against Franco's excesses gives a good conscience to other nations at a time when political torture [exists] in 70 countries. Tass denounced 'Franco repressions,' but how do the Russians deal with their political opposition...
Commented France's respected newsletter, Index Quotidien: "The Fifth Republic seems to have reached the critical stage of disenchantment and trial...
...Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon was baseless...