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...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...
Only after Mitterrand excused himself and disappeared into a staff workroom did the reporters learn that the 52% was for him, not for President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. When he returned a few moments later, phlegmatic as before, the questions began. "Do you believe those figures? Can they change?" They could change, he said, but not the outcome: the spread between him and Giscard was decisive. Well, then, why was he standing there talking about the weather? What was his reaction to the fact that he was suddenly President-elect of France? Tsk, tsk, he replied...
...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...