Word: rying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program was pure fantasy. Socialist Party Leader Fraçois Mitterrand reproached his supposed allies, the Communists, for insulting him. "That's a simple lie," retorted the Communist daily L'Humanité. Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac had earlier described as an unsavory plot the alliance of small parties supporting President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...unlikely man to be leading the center-right coalition's battle to retain power in France. Author of the standard economics textbook used in French schools and a former vice president of the Common Market, Barre was virtually unknown in his own country until President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing named him Premier in August 1976. The roly-poly professor, who describes himself as a "square man in a round body," enjoys the fact that he is not a professional politician. His blunt, straight-talking manner has won him the respect of the public, though his austere...
With this ringing rhetoric, delivered to an audience of 20,000 under a huge tent in the small Burgundian town of Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing finally jumped into his country's roiling political campaign. At stake when the electorate chooses a new National Assembly in late March may be the political stability of the Fifth Republic. With the latest polls now indicating that the leftist opposition will win a 25-to 27-seat majority in the Assembly despite the breach between the Socialists and their erstwhile Communist allies, there...
...Elle and L'Express, eventually decided that journalists have more clout in France than politicians. So, after leaving the government last March, she returned to the typewriter and banged out The Comedy of Power-a scathing attack on French politicians. As for her former boss, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Giroud says, if "an atom bomb fell on France, he would be there to congratulate himself that there had not been two." Giroud's political career, she readily agrees, is now fini...
...first pilgrimage to Paris since the election of his secessionist Parti Québ&3233;cois a year ago, Québec's Premier Rene Lévesque was embraced last week with rare homage. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing invested Lévesque, to his surprise, as a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and assured him of France's "understanding, confidence and support," whatever Québec's future course. At the National Assembly, Lévesque's arrival was via the Napoleon steps, an entrance last used by Louis...