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Personal Triumph. Pompidou, meanwhile, seemed to be everywhere, and he neither used notes nor hesitated to draft indictments. He suggested that Poher, if elected, would have to battle an overwhelmingly Gaullist Assembly. By holding up this specter, Pompidou successfully managed to appeal to what Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber calls France's "overriding concern" with stability. Not the least of his weapons was to mention the virtual necessity of Poher's calling new parliamentary elections should he win: having voted eleven times since De Gaulle came to power, France is tired of elections...
...Cultural Freedom, based in Paris and funded largely by the Ford Foundation. At a cost of about $80,000, the I.A.C.F. gave the incoming Nixon Administration a searching set of speculations about the state of the U.S. today and where it is heading. France's Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, journalist and author of the bestselling The American Challenge, voiced a note of urgency in opening the conference. "America, as the leading industrial power, is the crucial battlefield," he said. "The crisis you are living through we will have to face in the future." Some of the matters discussed...
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...American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber...
...American Challenge, Servan-Schreiber...