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...surprisingly successful in gaining admittance to high officials-so successful, in fact, that they were assumed to have had secret Administration help. But they insisted that they had made all their appointments on their own. Their first stop was the Elysée Palace, where French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing kept a delegation of mayors waiting for almost an hour while he talked with the women and offered them "the profound sympathy and solidarity of France." According to the leader of the group, Louisa Kennedy of Washington, D.C., wife of the economic and commercial officer...
...first visit to a Western capital since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, even before the U.S. misadventure in Iran, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was not at all in a conciliatory mood. Flying into Paris for two days of talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Gromyko brushed aside the European Community's standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe...
...with the stick. Chervonenko warmly characterized Franco-Soviet relations as a "preferential friendship," while Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev last week invited Helmut Schmidt to go to Moscow early this summer for a long delayed summit meeting. The invitation surprised Schmidt, who promptly phoned Carter, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and other Western leaders to discuss Bonn's response to an overture clearly intended by the Soviets to split the allies. In view of the already existing tensions in the alliance, a chancellery aide in Bonn emphasized that Schmidt "is not going to rush into anything...
...intensify the country's inflation fight by means of low budget deficits and controlled monetary growth. But there are trouble signs: pressure is building to hold wages down, which would surely enrage the highly politicized unions and endanger the 1981 re-election prospects of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...fast-moving fiction. Virtually all the international figures in The Fifth Horseman-the important exception being the U.S. President-are identified and living people. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's daughter Hassia plays the piano in the family's Jerusalem apartment; France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has a secret meeting with his top aides to discuss energy matters...