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...Gaullists marginally increased their overall strength, taking 52% of the municipal seats. The Communists won 45 out of France's 193 largest towns-six more than they previously controlled-the most victories for any single party. The divided centrist groups, which Radical Party Politician-Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber had hoped to weld into an alternative to the Gaullists and Communists, lost ground to both...
...says Asian, BB's new bust has supplanted ten old Mariannes in mayors' offices around France, at a cost of $105 each. Installing a bust of Brigitte at his party's headquarters in Paris, Radical Party Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber said: "We should be proud of her, of Roquefort cheese and of Bordeaux wine. They are the products that bring us the most profit." Andre Malraux, the celebrated author and former Minister of Culture, asked for and was sent a copy...
...forcing Chaban-Delmas to run in the Bordeaux by-election. It looked so easy. The port city has given Chaban-Delmas the nod in every election since 1946. But when members of the perennially feud-ridden non-Communist left failed to agree on an opposition candidate, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber announced his candidacy on the Radical Party ticket, and suddenly it was a whole new contest...
Gadfly Savior. Since the Communists are the only opposition party with any claim to real cohesion or strength in France, J-J S-S cast himself as something of a gadfly savior of the French left -and indeed of French democracy. Servan-Schreiber's political battle plan calls for the creation of a viable non-Communist alternative to the firmly en trenched Gaullist majorities, with himself, naturally, as its leader...
Forty minutes later, Haifa One started its descent into the darkness. As soon as his DC-8 touched down, Swissair Captain Fritz Schreiber hit the brakes and applied full reverse thrust on the four engines, raising a cloud of desert dust and sand, which was sucked into the ventilation system. "The cabin was filling up with cloudy stuff that smelted like smoke," recalled Cecily Simmon of Utica, N.Y. "You could hardly breathe." Many passengers leaped through emergency doors before it became evident that there was no fire. When the dust settled, the Swissair passengers saw the reason for the fast...