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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...
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...
...week elected their next director, Claude Julien, 55. After a tutorial two years under present Director Jacques Fauvet, 66, Julien will take over the paper in 1982, serving as chief editor and publisher, a position of major influence in the Fifth Republic. Founded in 1944 by Hubert Beuve-M�ry, who was designated its first director by Charles de Gaulle, Le Monde is required daily reading for French government officials and diplomats around the world. Mixing first-rate reporting with a heavy dose of editorial opinion, Le Monde has managed to remain free of domination by any political party...
...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-M�ry, 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 Fran�ois Mitterrand in the 1974 presidential election won by center-right Candidate Val�ry Giscard d'Estaing, and showing sympathy for the brutal Cambodian...