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...message was clear: France's uneasy electorate, fed up with squabbling on the left, uncertain of the dimensions of Communist intentions, played safe. "I expected as much," said Giscard coolly, as he watched first-round returns from the presidential Chateau de Rambouillet, 34 miles from Paris, "I didn't speak Saturday night for nothing." He was referring to a persuasive election-eve address on national television. A victory for the deeply divided leftist parties could not ensure a stable government in France, he warned. Moreover, "though the French economy has improved, it is still very fragile. The shock...
Instead of first meeting privately with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, as the carefully prepared schedule called for, Brezhnev broke protocol, summoning a number of ministers and other aides from both sides to his temporary residence, Château Rambouillet. the luxurious 14th century castle 33 miles southwest of Paris. Thereupon he launched into a 2½-hr. dissertation on détente and disarmament. Brezhnev defended the Soviet Union as the only country in the world that had incorporated the principles of the Helsinki summit in its constitution...
...check inflation, which is now running at a rate of 9% in the European Community. They fear that these developments, which can be corrected only by tough and usually unpopular government actions, could turn the London summit into another exercise in empty rhetoric, like its two predecessors in Rambouillet and Puerto Rico. The summit seven did come out against protectionism, and board members note with bipartisan approval that Carter has so far stuck to his word, rejecting demands for higher tariffs on shoes and tighter quotas on sugar imported into...
...economic outlook for 24 non-Communist industrial nations; it predicts an average annual 4% economic-growth rate along with an 8% consumer-price rise in 1977. Carter also read specially prepared biographies of the leaders he is about to meet, plus summaries of the 1975 summit at Rambouillet, France, and the 1976 sequel in Puerto Rico. Over the weekend at Camp David, he digested two briefing books assembled by Brzezinski with help from the State, Treasury and Defense departments and Special Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss. One book dealt with the Downing Street conference, the other with the NATO summit, which...
...previous economic summits, at France's Château de Rambouillet in November 1975 and in Puerto Rico last June, produced little but talk. London may be no different, but fortunately immediate results are not all-important. The meeting will give the other six heads of government their first opportunity to size up the new President in person. If they like what they see, they will be bolder in tackling the nagging economic problems that afflict the industrialized world...