Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Early on, the rumors favored Health Minister Simone Veil, who the polls say is France's most popular political figure, and two prominent Gaullists, ex-Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Justice Minister Alain Peyrefitte. By midweek, however, Elysée sources were confidently predicting that Giscard would reappoint Raymond Barre. After all, it was no coincidence that the three goals of Giscard's new administration-economic recovery, social justice and bureaucratic reform -were spelled out in the presidential address in exactly the same terms as in Barre's own campaign platform. In addition, Giscard had stressed...
Still, center-right politicians were careful not to issue triumphal statements, for fear of inducing voter apathy. "The main lesson of the first round is that the French were not deceived by the demagogic promises with which the left hoped to seduce them," said Premier Raymond Barre, adding prudently that "nothing is lost, but nothing is won yet." Although the leftist momentum had been arrested, there were a number of constituencies where the second-round election would be decided by the narrowest of margins. "If just a few of our supporters decide to go fishing on March 19, we could...
...France's parliamentary election campaign wound up last week, the candidates virtually scoured the thick French lexicon of political hyperbole. In a fire-and-brimstone attack on Premier Raymond Barre's anti-inflation policies, Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais declared in a Paris speech: "If I believed in God, I would promise hell for anyone who believes in austerity." Barre, for his part, ripped into Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, whose Common Program with the Communists he likened to Dr. Faust's pact with the devil. Said Barre in the city of Caen: "Monsieur Mitterrand...
...Crimson is pleased to announce the election of the following: To the News Board: Raymond C. Bertolino '80 of Eliot House and Nassau, N.Y.; Justina K. Carlson '81 of Wigglesworth Hall and Wellfleet, Ma.; Susan C. Faludi '81 of Stoughton Hall and New York, N.Y.; Joan Feigenbaum '80-1 of Canaday Hall and Valley Stream, N.Y.; J. Christopher Flowers '79 of Adams House and Wayland, Ma.; William M. Ginsberg '78-3 of Quincy House and Oshkosh, Wisc.; Joshua I. Goldhaber '80 of Quincy House and Newton, Ma.; Dewitt C. Jones IV '79 of Eliot House and Falmouth, Ma.; Harry...
...every major party candidate-until an outcry in other papers forced Figaro to relent. Last month Hersant invited 2,000 Figaro subscribers in Neuilly, the Paris suburb he wants to represent in the assembly, to a lavish champagne buffet. In protest against Hersant's abuse of Figaro, Raymond Aron and Jean d'Ormesson, two pillars of the French intellectual establishment, resigned as top editors of the paper and criticized the publisher in print...