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...time formally to open the campaign for the forthcoming elections, and the left was in utter disarray. In 1972 the Communists and Socialists had combined forces to create a "common program" of ideas with which they would rule France together. Not six months ago, in fact, French pollsters had predicted an electoral victory of the left that would have given President Giscard the unhappy prospect of appointing a Socialist as his Premier and seeing Communists in the Cabinet. But a serious political falling-out between Communist Boss Georges Marchais and Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand seemed to sink that possibility...
...hottest growth industry in Washington these days is generated by the Freedom of Information Act. It soaks up millions of dollars, employs hundreds of civil servants, and is driving many of them to utter distraction. The law has brought out of "secret" drawers many illuminating facts about the Government and its manipulations, but it has also in vited misuse, abuse, overuse and a lot of silliness in the name of the public's right to know...
...newest chronicle of utter failure recalls an adventure that occurred in 1959 when Plimpton, now 50 and frail, was 31 and frail. Friends had goaded him with the mischievous argument that if he was really serious about participatory journalism, he should fight a professional boxer. There was a nice, traditional quality to the idea. Hemingway had gone many rounds with pugs, and Journalist Paul Gallico once had his fillings loosened by Jack Dempsey...
...Moore fight had its dramatic possibilities substantially enhanced by a luncheon Moore shared with Peter Maas, a journalist friend of Plimpton's. Maas casually let drop that Plimpton was an "intercollegiate boxing champion" with a "pole-ax left hook" that could give Moore trouble. This utter fabrication caused Plimpton to have a harder time of it in the first round than he otherwise might have had, until Moore was satisfied that his opponent really was no more than the spindly-legged writer that he seemed...
...Labor Secretary John Dunlop to boycott one I.L.O. meeting. Later, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger voiced concern over the "increasing politicization" of the I.L.O. One example: hasty condemnation of Israel for supposedly mistreating Arab workers in occupied territory. Such lack of due process, said Kissinger, is "in utter disregard of the established procedures and machinery, and is gravely damaging the I.L.O. and its capacity to pursue its objectives in the human-rights field." On Nov. 5, 1975, he wrote a letter to Director General Francis Blanchard, giving the required two-year notice for pulling out of the I.L.O. Unless...