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...heavy. The final poll, published by France-Soir, gave the So cialist-Communist combine and other leftist parties 47 per cent of the electorate. The Gaullists trailed with 36% (as compared with their 46% popular vote in the 1968 elections); the centrist parties, led by Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet, took 14%. By one reckoning, the Gaullists were assured of at least 225 seats, but there were no guarantees that they would pick up the 246 needed for a bare majority...
...person but a stiff and weary figure on a TV screen, bored French audiences by repeatedly assuring them that the united-left program-nationalization of "strategic industries," banks and insurance companies-is "neither socialism nor Communism" but something he described as "economic democracy." Although many Frenchmen agree with Servan-Schreiber's proposals for decentralizing power within France, few share his sense of urgency about spearheading "a European new deal...
...Claude Servan-Schreiber, Michele Chevalier and Gisele Halimi spoke about repressive abortion laws in France and about women's efforts to change them...
...Servan-Schreiber, a leader of Choisir, a French abortion rights organization, praised the recent pro-abortion decision of the United States Supreme Court. But she added, "You have succeeded where we have not yet succeeded...
...Bobigny trial of Michele Chevalier and her daughter Marie-Claire has made abortion a public issue in France recently. Until now, repressive laws have kept articles on abortion out of the newspapers, Servan-Schreiber explained...