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...landscape. Seven years under patrician, aloof President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing were enough. Twenty-three years of government by the same center-right majority had proved too much. As if they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked on the country's boldest venture toward the left since 1936, setting the stage for a risky economic transformation...
...career began with World War II. Shot in the chest and captured near Verdun, he escaped from a German prison camp and joined the Resistance as an organizer of former P.O.W.s. Shortly after the war, Mitterrand was elected to the National Assembly as a candidate for the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance, a small but pivotal center party that won a surprising number of Cabinet posts under the Fourth Republic. Over a 13-year period, Mitterrand held eight Cabinet posts-and earned a reputation as a political chameleon. It was De Gaulle's return to power...
...instincts has convinced him of the need to decentralize the French government. Borrowing an idea from fellow Socialist Michel Rocard, he proposes to replace the Paris-appointed prefects who preside over the nation's 96 départements with locally elected officials. The aim: to put government back in the hands of the people. Mitterrand will also push for greater worker participation in the management of companies...
...NATO members' obligations; at the same time, his reluctance to modernize French nuclear weapons implies a greater dependence on NATO's protection. During the campaign, Mitterrand effectively attacked Giscard for his weak responses to the Soviet arms buildup in Europe and the invasion of Afghanistan. Yet the Socialist leader never explained clearly what it was he would have done differently. As for relations with the U.S., chillier days may be ahead, if only because of the ideological chasm between Paris' new leftist government and the conservative Reagan Administration...
...course the majority does not plan on pulling political ads. But what about an ad submitted by the National Socialist Party of America? Or what about a full page ad which has already appeared in the Crimson last week, submitted by the Conservative Caucus and urging the elimination of "legal services for the poor"? Are Jews or the indigent any less deserving of protection against exploitation than women...