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...China's Deng Xiaoping as a breath of fresh air, a man who, in Carter's mind, could be trusted to keep his word. "He was not afraid to talk about his country's weaknesses," said Carter, "something the Soviets would never dare do." Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was the most powerful of all the Western leaders he had worked with because of the wide authority granted to the President by French law. Britain's Margaret Thatcher was a woman of strong opinions, forceful and dependable. He did not talk about Germany...
During the civil war in Chad, the government of President Valéry Giscard...
Seeking to avert a social collision, the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing halted new immigration from non-European Community countries in 1974. More recently, it has redoubled police efforts to ferret out illegal immigrants, and offered $2,250 bonuses to workers who voluntarily return to their own countries. The trouble is that many African countries have refused to take them back. Consequently, what Giscard has failed to solve by expulsion, he has tried to accomplish by diffusion: thousands of immigrants have been moved out of cities by the government and relocated in suburban areas where...
...Ry Cooder: Borderline (Warner Bros.). Restored Tex-Mex, revised rock and resurrected blues by an easygoing-and funny-virtuoso...
FRANCE. Because President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing faces re-election this spring, the French government is unlikely to be quite as tightfisted as its Bonn counterpart. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, predicts that growth, which was 1.6% in 1980, will decline slightly to between .5% and 1% in 1981. Unemployment, now at 6.9%, could reach 8%. Progress against inflation will be small. After rising by 13.5% in 1980, prices this year will surge another 11% or more...