Word: rying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bonn, Jimmy Carter smiled. Little else. Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt sat down the table from the U.S. President and swirled Coca-Cola around in his wine glass and looked with contempt along his tilted nose at Carter. Schmidt dominated the personalities, France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was clearly second, and Carter was down there some place with Britain's jolly James Callaghan, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault...
...past two months, an entire army of Sterns has been at large in the streets, salons and concert halls. Which was the real one? The celebrity glimpsed in a blue Mercedes limousine, racing to such appointments as a private tour of Versailles and a recital before President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing? Or was it the doppelgänger who never seemed to leave the rehearsal hall, reflectively pushing his horn-rims up over white hair and grilling the young violinists who passed before him: "Who did you study with? Why did you choose that piece...
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's "Lone Ranger" diplomacy [June 2] with Moscow is just another case of dissatisfaction with the Carter Administration. Moscow would love to divide the West on today's problems, and if the Soviets are successful, it will be because Western Europe is probably tired of playing What's My Line?with Washington...
...vigor of the European Community's initiative contrasted with the almost surreal serenity of the summit's site in the historic center of Venice. The statesmen were as enchanted with the beguiling city as countless ordinary tourists before them. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing went for a brisk ride up the Grand Canal in his motor launch, the Ile de France. Thatcher, still clad in a flowing evening gown, stole out of her hotel at 2 a.m. for a stroll beneath the stars. Mindful of threats from the terrorist Red Brigades to disrupt...
...fact, Le Monde has no particular owner; it has 700 of them. Since 1951 the daily has been owned by its employees, though they do not set the paper's policy. Beuve-Méry, sometimes referred to by staffers as "God," ran a taut one-man editorial operation for 25 years before handing over the reins in 1969 to his hand-chosen successor, Fauvet. Under Fauvet, Le Monde moved perceptibly left, supporting Socialist Party Leader François Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election won by center-right Candidate Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and showing sympathy for the brutal Cambodian...