Word: val
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority of the French, the time had come at last for a dramatic change in the nation's long-frozen political landscape. Seven years under patrician, aloof President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing were enough. Twenty-three years of government by the same center-right majority had proved too much. As if they had been dared once too often to take the risk, French voters this week chose Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 64, an unflappable veteran politician whom many thought a perennial loser, as the fourth President of the Fifth Republic. They thus embarked...
...work in modern factories, riding horses, playing soccer. A crescendo: French-made washing machines, Renault cars, film stars and ballet scenes spell out progress and the good life. Then comes the man who claims responsibility for this idyllic island of well-being in a time of global torment: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 55, pictured at his desk in the Elysée Palace, meeting foreign leaders, affably mixing with ordinary citizens. "France has found its face," concludes the narration. "With this face it is at peace with itself," The audience cheers. The lights...
Marchais, 60, an aggressive, hard-lining former metalworker who has been party boss for the past eight years, seized the occasion to launch some characteristically hard-bitten attacks on the leading candidates. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, he proclaimed, was "the champion of the insolent and decadent aristocracy that dominates France." He reminded his audience that "the people rose up and assaulted the Bastille" in 1789, sweeping away "the old rotten regime." Then he turned with equal antagonism on the other main candidate, Socialist Leader François Mitterrand. Heaping scorn on his former partner...
...recent junior varsity action. VAL ROMERO notched 11 strikeouts to lead Harvard to an 8-3 win over Lesley...
Other starting pitchers include Barb Mahon, Karen Pelletier, and Val Romero...