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...members of Mitterrand's coterie have been presidential candidates. Economist Michel Rocard, 50, headed the left-wing Unified Socialist Party in 1969, winning 3.6% of the vote. Last November he tried to win the Socialist presidential nomination, then withdrew when Mitterrand said that he would run. Now more moderate in his economic views (he has doubts about the benefits of nationalization), Rocard was the top choice for Premier, whether Mitterrand or Giscard won, in a poll conducted by L 'Express. Premier Gaston Defferre, 70, the party's most durable figure, was a presidential candidate in 1969, when...
...dance began in 1920 when delegates to a Socialist convention in Tours walked out and joined the fledgling Comintern, the external arm of the Bolshevik Revolution. Over the next 15 years the P.C.F. developed into a faithful replica of its Soviet parent. The first real opportunity for Communist-Socialist cooperation came in 1936 with the Popular Front government of Socialist Léon Blum. The Communists officially refused to take part in the short-lived Front because the Socialists were the dominant force. But the party tacitly supported such Blum reforms as sponsorship of the 40-hour work week...
...spotted a picture of a girl in an apartment used for exchanging messages. Mitterrand asked a few questions about her and then said, "I will marry her." That year he wed Danielle Gouze after, legend has it, introducing her to his parents with a staccato biography: "Danielle, nonreligious, democrat, socialist." Now a human rights activist in the party, she wrote a letter last month to Maureen Reagan asking her to use her influence to change her father's position on El Salvador...
Mitterrand began gravitating toward the socialist left as his quarrel with De Gaulle grew sharper and he needed broader support for his fight against the general's "dictatorship." It was then that Mitterrand decided to become a spokesman of the opposition...
Mitterrand's strong race against De Gaulle in the 1965 presidential elections, run with the support of both Socialists and Communists, was the beginning of his rise to power in the left. In 1971 he became head of the Socialist Party, and the following year masterminded the five-year Socialist-Communist Common Program. The reverses he experienced did not deter him, even when he ran for the second time for the presidency in 1974 and lost to Giscard by a mere 424,599 votes. As Mitterrand's closest comrade, the late Georges Dayan, observed, "Mitterrand's great...