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...decisions taken today are only the first step," said Giscard. In fact, they were really a second step. Last January he shook up France's military leadership by naming Yvon Bourges, 53, a tough, energetic and sometimes abrasive Gaullist, as Minister of Defense to replace the ineffectual Jacques Soufflet. General Marcel Bigeard, 59, a paratroop hero and one of France's most decorated soldiers, was named Bourges's deputy...
...press conference, Servan-Schreiber said that the Cabinet had never discussed the tests: "The military faced the Cabinet with a fait accompli." That proved to be his undoing. Hours later, Defense Minister Jacques Soufflet, a hard-line Gaullist and a chief proponent of testing, issued an ultimatum: Giscard and Chirac would have to choose between him and Servan-Schreiber. They promptly dismissed Servan-Schreiber, the Premier explaining tersely, "The views he expressed this morning are incompatible with the basic principles of our policy...
While passengers on the Queen Elizabeth lined the rails before dawn to cheer them off, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and wife Mamie boarded a tender, headed for Cherbourg dockside. At a breakfast reception in the customs shed, the general drank a champagne toast with Cherbourg's Mayor Edmond Soufflet, recalled that his arrival this time had been considerably easier than his Normandy landing more than six years ago, added seriously: "With God's help, and with all of us working together, we can keep peace." The general then boarded a plane for Paris and his new duties...
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