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...largest company in France's inefficient and fragmented dairy industry. The French government heartily approves Perrier's bid, which would both foil any foreign attempt to take over Genvrain and represent a major move toward consolidating France's 3,000 scattered dairy firms. Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing indicates as much in a meeting with the publicity-shy strategist of Perrier's expansion, President Gustave Leven. Perrier makes a generous proposal for Genvrain: $56 a share for stock that was selling for $45 on the Bourse. Genvrain would be mate...
...Williams always keeps his per-spective. Although some of the characters are not fully developed. we are always aware of their humanity: Hod a killer yet a gentle man of principle; the Don. who takes a special interest in Browning in part because of a long-ago romance; Val. Browning's wife. who wears her hair au naturel. but who, like Browning. is firmly in the middle class: even Carrigan, the cop. who, furstrated with his job and marriage takes out his frustrations on a defenseless black youth. As in his previous work, Williams has shown himself...
Pompidou and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing decided on July 16 to devalue the franc. Only nine people in all of France knew of the impending devaluation. As far as France and the rest of the world were concerned, Pompidou was about to leave Paris on holiday at week's end. So artful was the camouflage that only a single French newsman remained behind, lounging in the press department of Pompidou's Elysée Palace and flicking through the President's itinerary for a visit to Corsica. Then a stream of Citro...
Whither Barataria. At the government's request, a three-member committee, headed by Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd., has been studying British representation abroad for a year. Their report, just released, may upend yet another British institution. Comparing Britain to "a man who decides that his requirements no longer justify the upkeep of a Rolls-Royce," the committee recommended "a significant reduction" in the size of the diplomatic service, a 50% slash in the size of overseas information departments, and a one-third cut in the number of armed-service attaches. Moreover, said...
...proposals from the Common Market's Executive Commission for joint economic planning and budgetary discipline to deal with overheated European economies, the ministers agreed -in principle-to set up a unified monetary mechanism. The details would have to be worked out later. Nevertheless, France's Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's Economics Minister Karl Schiller called the agreement an important step. Giscard added, perhaps too optimistically, that it was "the first time we have monetary solidarity among...