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Pierre Trudeau, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. A notable absentee: French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who boycotted the dinner. Reason: he was piqued that British Laborite Roy Jenkins had been invited to both Callaghan's dinner and some of the summit sessions in his capacity as president of the European Community's Brussels-based commission. Like his predecessors, Giscard is determined to keep the Common Market and its representatives from getting too uppity...
...forced smile flickered occasionally across the President's lean, aristocratic face as he spoke into the television cameras. "The people of France sent a message to those who govern you. I have received it." So saying, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ordered Premier Raymond Barre-who had resigned only an hour earlier-to form a new Cabinet. Giscard, who was on the defensive after his governing coalition's stunning defeat in last month's municipal elections, defined the goals for the government: 1) mapping the country's economic recovery and 2) charting a program...
...French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing found himself rejected by both left and right in the second round of his country's municipal elections. Socialist and Communist candidates, who posted impressive gains in the first stage of voting (TIME, March 28), last week triumphed in more than two dozen additional cities with populations over 30,000, including Rennes, Nantes, Bourges, Le Mans and St.-Etienne. This gives the left control of 153 of France's 221 cities of that size. "It's double what we had aimed for," said jubilant Socialist Leader Fran...
...seal the fate of the 1,400-m.p.h. SST, which the French and British regard as a historic technological triumph. One French aviation expert warns that rejection by New York "would kill the Concorde." Concerned that the Port Authority was about to do just that, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing phoned President Carter last week to warn that banning Concorde could "provoke a very grave crisis in French-American relations...
Each country has its gripes. As Carter heard last week from visiting Prime Minister James Callaghan, Britain is upset by New York City's reluctance to grant landing rights to the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic jetliner (see THE WORLD). French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is even more piqued. The West Germans fear that Carter's pressure to get them to cancel a sale of nuclear reactors to Brazil will result in damage to their reputation abroad as dependable deliverers...