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...television, pugnacious Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais last week called the nation's Minister of Justice, Alain Peyrefitte, "a liar.'' "That's a good start," responded the Minister mildly. A few days later, Premier Raymond Barre derisively branded Marchais an "Ali Baba," whose economic program was pure fantasy. Socialist Party Leader Fraçois Mitterrand reproached his supposed allies, the Communists, for insulting him. "That's a simple lie," retorted the Communist daily L'Humanité. Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac had earlier described as an unsavory plot the alliance of small parties supporting President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...French seemed almost oblivious to some of the dangerous consequences of a leftist victory that would bring not just a change in leadership and policies but a mutation in the nation's economic system (see box). In addition, it might produce a constitutional crisis involving Giscard and a Socialist Premier with conflicting ideological views. There was the possibility too that France might become the first major Western European nation in 30 years to install Communists as heads of government ministries, a prospect that could only embolden the left throughout Europe...
...fair, the French have rarely been so saturated with politics. This will be their fourth trip to the polls in the past five years. The present campaign really began four years ago when the Socialists' Mitterrand barely missed (by 300,000 votes) defeating Giscard for the presidency. Since then, in cantonal and municipal elections, the Socialist-Communist alliance has gained impressive strength; Communist mayors now rule 75 cities. Seven months ago the dynamic left appeared an easy winner over the squabbling governing coalition in the elections. But when the Communists broke with their Socialist partners last September, the political mood...
...might have added that it would be the costliest lunch in French history. Many analysts who have dissected the left's platform, or Common Program, believe that it will cause severe economic problems and gravely disrupt France's relations with the rest of Europe. Even some Socialist thinkers accept this analysis-if not publicly...
...Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand claims that the 1978 price of the wage and welfare package will be $8.3 billion. Premier Raymond Barre contends that the entire Common Program would cost $32.7 billion. According to Barre, Mitterrand is "a pyromaniac masquerading as a fire fighter," whose extravagant schemes will destroy the center-right government's economic achievements...