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...Sybil, Schreiber...
Washington was pleased at the outcome, although it would have preferred a stronger performance by nonleftist center parties led by Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet, who do not share the Gaullists' traditionally prickly attitudes toward the Common Market, NATO and the Atlantic alliance. Though the centrists emerged with a disappointing 31 seats in the Assembly, the Gaullists have been suggesting that they might be offered a role in the new government. In a testy post-election TV appearance, Lecanuet made a bitter reply: "We ask nothing. You have no need...
...first-round vote, compared with 46% for the united left.* Though the Gaullists could still emerge from the second round with a majority, it was also possible that they would be forced into a coalition with the centrists, led by Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet and Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who polled 12.4% last week. Less likely would be the emergence of the first Socialist-Communist majority in France since the 1930s...
...Gaullism. Its leaders decided to approach the second round on different tacks. Bargaining for a voice in any new Gaullist government, Lecanuet agreed to withdraw his candidates in districts where they might pull votes away from a Gaullist and thus help to throw the election to a leftist. Servan-Schreiber, hoping that the Gaullists would lose their majority and thus be forced to turn to him and his allies for help, urged centrist candidates to stay in the race...
...train that morning he had tried to read the new, compact, modern Mail-Express-Mirror, edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, but had soon turned to his customary European Times. The headlines, on this sunny day in 1984, were depressingly familiar. Europe's trade gap was still widening (there was another warning from Brussels that Europe must "export or die"). Enoch Powell, a sprightly 72-year-old eccentric who lived in the South of France, had made a speech in Nice warning, yet again, that Europe would collapse unless something was done about the rising tide of Japanese immigration...