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During the civil war in Chad, the government of President Valéry Giscard...
North, Tony Visone, Bill Sztorc, Derek Malmquist and Rob Burns have supposedly been told that they will not be practicing with the varisty, although Burns played last night. In addition, North has asked for "a couple of days off" because of exams, assistant coach Val Belmonte, said yesterday. Bill Larson played in his first ECAC contest instead, centering for Benson and Jim Turner...
Seeking to avert a social collision, the government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing halted new immigration from non-European Community countries in 1974. More recently, it has redoubled police efforts to ferret out illegal immigrants, and offered $2,250 bonuses to workers who voluntarily return to their own countries. The trouble is that many African countries have refused to take them back. Consequently, what Giscard has failed to solve by expulsion, he has tried to accomplish by diffusion: thousands of immigrants have been moved out of cities by the government and relocated in suburban areas where...
FRANCE. Because President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing faces re-election this spring, the French government is unlikely to be quite as tightfisted as its Bonn counterpart. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, predicts that growth, which was 1.6% in 1980, will decline slightly to between .5% and 1% in 1981. Unemployment, now at 6.9%, could reach 8%. Progress against inflation will be small. After rising by 13.5% in 1980, prices this year will surge another 11% or more...
...should be said too that there are public figures whose bearing simply does not lend itself to nicknames. It is hard to imagine that the French would ever refer to their leader as Val. And Mrs. Gandhi is surely nothing but Indira to her friend...