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Ever since France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced on New Year's Eve that he would like to have dinner with a typical French family once a month to keep up with "the problems that concern Frenchmen of all professions," the Elysée Palace has been swamped with invitations. The very same night, one woman telephoned and told the duty officer at the palace: "Oh, please, tell the President to come right over. We're having oysters and turkey and would love to have him." Other offers were less polite, including...
...favored a conference. Kissinger has held out for a delay until the consumers are more firmly united, fearing that countries that are deeply in debt and heavily dependent on oil imports would easily bend to OPEC's bidding. At Martinique three weeks ago, President Ford and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing struck a compromise calling for a series of meetings: first a general feeling-out between OPEC and the consumers, then a number of meetings among consumers to work out their common position, and finally a tripartite summit, probably this autumn...
...Europeans, life became a little darker, slower, chillier. Heating-oil prices went up 60% to 100%, and thermostats were turned down. In the midst of a French conservation drive in October, President Valéry Discard d'Estaing found his Elysée Palace dining room so cold that he lunched with Premier Jacques Chirac in the library by a crackling fire. Gasoline rose to $1.40 per gal. in West Germany, $1.72 in Italy, $2.50 in Greece. Electrical advertising signs were banned after 10 p.m. in France and during the daytime in Britain. In Athens, the floodlights illuminating the Acropolis were turned...
...replaced by Yitzhak Rabin. Japan's Kakuei Tanaka resigned amid scandal, with Takeo Miki succeeding him. Western Europe seemed beset by Fraktionspolitik. Great Britain deposed Edward Heath and reinstated Harold Wilson. France's Georges Pompidou died in April and was replaced by the progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost its 31st government of the postwar era. Portugal deposed Marcello Caetano, the dictatorial heir of Salazar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile...
...disarray bordering on ruin. In the May election for Pompidou's successor as President, the official Gaullist candidate won only 15% of the vote, and after 16 years in the Elysée, the party saw the presidency go to a non-Gaullist, former Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Many Gaullists are now turning to another non-Gaullist who, paradoxically, they think may be the savior of their movement. He is Michel Jobert, 53, who, as Georges Pompidou's last Foreign Minister, was a frequent critic of both Henry Kissinger and the Common Market...