Word: ry
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...stunning victory last month over former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing appears to have begun a swing to the Socialists. One poll last week gave the Socialists and their allies, the tiny Left Radical Movement, 36% of the vote, up dramatically from the 28% they won on the first presidential ballot. According to most forecasts, the Socialists could double their current total of 117 seats in the 491-member National Assembly when the two rounds of elections-on June 14 and 21 -are completed. Barring a string of disasters at the local level, the Socialists should...
...West German support for everything from shoring up the dollar to bolstering NATO's defenses. This time, it was Schmidt who needed a little propping up. His popularity in the polls is down, the West German economy is sputtering, and the defeat of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing deprived Schmidt of his closest European ally. In short, the Chancellor could use some signals of support from Reagan, and the White House knew it. As a senior State Department official put it: "We need to meet him halfway...
...sheer theatricality, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's passing from the presidency in France rivaled King Richard II's dethronement in Shakespeare's play. In a carefully staged farewell address to the nation on television last week, the defeated President seemed to concede that, like the deposed monarch, he had not yet "shook off the regal thoughts wherewith I reign'd." Seated at a desk in solitary grandeur in a leather-bound chair in an otherwise unfurnished room, Giscard spoke of "the end of great hopes" brought about by the election two weeks...
...cover portrait showed an aged and heavily wattled Valéry Giscard d'Estaing slumped before a television set. On the screen was a photograph of a hale and vigorous François Mitterrand. An altogether apt representation, one might think, of the results of France's presidential election. Except that the portrait appeared on the cover of France's respected newsweekly L'Express five days prior to the decisive May 10 balloting...
Western Europe's political leaders have been fairly warned. If there is any discernible mood sweeping the Continent, it is an indiscriminate, throw-the-rascals-out rejection of the status quo. On the same day that Valéry Discard d'Estaing was losing the French presidency to Socialist François Mitterrand, West Berlin voters were giving a similar demonstration of discontent with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats, who had ruled the divided city for 26 years. Tainted by corruption, the city's Social Democratic Party polled a meager 38.4%, its worst...