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Mitterrand was quick to retaliate. Accusing Giscard of "verbal violence," the Socialist leader turned a campaign appearance in Nevers into a fuming Marxist defense. "Don't insult [leftist voters] who want to live in freedom from the anguish of unemployment!" he challenged, addressing Giscard. Preying on the President's upper-class background and aristocratic style, Mitterrand went on: "I remind Monsieur Giscard d'Estaing that the people conquered freedom almost two centuries ago against the old feudal or der, and against the feudalism of money, and that the people are fighting for free dom today against...
...first-round score in the 1974 presidential elections. Even then he had, barely managed to beat Mitterrand by 1.6% in the runoff. This time Mitterrand appeared to have made impressive new gains. Indeed, with 25.8% of the first-round ballots, he had captured more French voters than any Socialist since the end of World...
Shocked by the defections, party leaders set out to lure back workers who had apparently recoiled from the way the Communists had torpedoed Mitterrand's 1978 attempt at a Socialist-Communist alliance. Even in this election, Marchais had appeared to direct the Communists' first-round campaign as much against Mitterrand-as "an obstacle to change"-as against Giscard. According to some analysts, the Communists are now supporting Mitterrand in the hope of ultimately sinking...
Whatever the reasons behind the Communists' maneuver, their formal support may prove crucial to Mitterrand in what promises to be one of the closest elections in French history. Though Marchais has continued to demand that Mitterrand accept Communist ministers in his prospective Socialist government, Mitterrand has cannily sidestepped the issue to avoid alarming moderate voters. Ridiculing Mitterrand's ambiguous stance last week, Giscard asked, "Why doesn't he answer Marchais directly when the latter asks for his share of government ministers? The reason: Mitterrand wants the votes of Communists and anti-Communists at the same time:" Giscard...
After moving from Mexico to the bomb-pocked G.D.R. in 1948 with his mother Alma, half brother Stefan and stepfather Bodo Uhse, a highly acclaimed Socialist writer, Agee begins to observe with a foreigner's freshness. He remembers the early Iron Curtain: a chicken-wire fence in an old couple's garden, preventing imperialist rabbits of the British Zone from devouring the Voik's lettuce. He recalls the angst of a zealous Red poet when Khrushchev denounced Stalin: "In a fit of self-loathing he wished to be a lumberjack in some remote country like Norway. Very...