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Jobert is basically shy, without political ambition, and obviously ill at ease in public gatherings. He operates best behind the scenes as a quiet, efficient technocrat. Unlike Kissinger, Jobert never makes a decision without clearing it first with his chief of state, President Georges Pompidou. A graduate of France's prestigious Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Jobert was a gifted civil servant who joined forces with Pompidou ten years ago as one of his top aides. Short and slight, he has a mordant wit, and his intellectual powers command the respect of Cabinet colleagues...
...institute's dependence on military research. But long after the critical voices fell silent, the arts continued to flourish, largely because of pipe-smoking, affable President Wiesner, 57. To him, "A person is much less of a human being if he thinks of himself only as a technocrat. Society needs the cognitive reaction of a poet as well as a technologist...
...higher standards of living for all Europe. That has indeed happened; yet today a substantial percentage of Western Europeans, particularly the young, regard the Market with a combination of apathy and antipathy. The Norwegian electorate's no to EEC membership last month reflected a growing attitude that the technocrat-heavy organization is impersonal and even a bit dehumanizing, a bureaucracy that will make government even more remote from the individual than it is already. Thus, in an ironic turn of history, leaders of nine nations will meet in Paris to discuss the expansion of a united Western Europe...
...conceivable, of course, that all the present candidates to succeed him will be rejected in favor of some technocrat with no known enemies, such as Canada's Maurice Strong, 42, a wealthy former financial executive and top-level civil servant who also has the unusual distinction of speaking Eskimo. At a trade convention in Manhattan last week, Strong urged that the new Secretary-General revitalize the organization by drastically cutting its staff and undertaking "a major redeployment of resources." Others have suggested that the U.N. Secretariat abandon its traditional but none too successful efforts at peace making...
That is all too harsh a judgment of Edward Gierek, 58, the pragmatic technocrat who took over as party leader after Wladyslaw Gomulka, 66, was forced to resign because of last December's Baltic coast riots. In fact, Gierek has done many things that Gomulka in recent years would not have dared. Last week he made important moves in his overall strategy to ease economic and religious tensions in Poland, and to shunt aside hard-line leaders who also happen to be his rivals for power. Specifically, Gierek: - Introduced a new Five-Year Plan to the party...