Word: sygma
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...politically motivated smear campaign has been variously attributed to leftists embittered by their defeat in last spring's election, Israeli embassy officials angered by France's pro-Arab tilt, secret-service men disturbed by Giscard's cavalier disregard of their efforts to protect him, Sygma photographers miffed by presidential patronage of a rival Gamma photographer, and old-guard civil servants appalled by Discard's relatively breezy approach to running the government. The explanation that has gained greatest currency is that hard-line Gaullists, who resent Giscard for having abandoned certain of the general's dogmas...