Word: rying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barre! [Giscard at the helm!]." Over in the Left Bank student quarter, meanwhile, small knots of young people gathered under the watchful gaze of riot police to shout sullenly, and absurdly, "A victory for fascism!" Such were the sharply distinct reactions to longtime Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's knife-edge victory over Socialist Françoise Mitterrand in France's presidential runoff last week...
Cold Civil War. Certainly Giscard has been offered an invitation to greatness. For nearly two decades, his country has stood as a near-perfect model of stability in Western Europe. But it was a stability achieved at the cost of political atrophy. With his victory, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing will bring a new generation into French political life. He is a modern practitioner of politics who wants to lay to rest the long cold civil war between the French left and right. To succeed, Giscard must persuade the other, less affluent half of France to follow...
...often been said by his friends that from childhood on, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was condemned to succeed. He was born with the gifts of good looks and intellectual brilliance from a patrician background. Almost effortlessly, he rose to become one of France's youngest and most powerful Finance Ministers. A few days before his election as President of France, Giscard granted an exclusive interview to TIME Correspondent George Taber. Relaxing over a snack of Roquefort cheese and champagne aboard the Mystere executive jet that he used during the campaign, Giscard discussed his foreign policy...
...Ry Cooder Those who missed the superb guitar playing and Depression-era balladeering of Ry Cooder at Sanders Theater get another chance to catch him Sunday, May 19 at The Performance Center...
...field down to two, and set the stage for one of the most bitter runoff campaigns in French political history. The contenders: Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 57, who is running with increasing power, backed by both his own party and the Communists, and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, the first Establishment candidate to win a shot at the Elysée without the support of the Gaullist old guard. If the polls are to be believed, the race could hardly be tighter: one French forecast gave Giscard 51 % of the vote and Mitterrand...