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...will then become the sole marketers of all the oil pumped out of their lands, making imperative a conference between governments of oil-burning nations and those of oil-pumping nations. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has proposed a meeting of industrialized and oil-producing nations; French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wants to include underdeveloped countries that also depend on oil. The producers now appear to favor the Giscard d'Estaing proposal. In preparation for such a gathering, the OPEC delegates in Vienna last week voted to meet next month in Algiers...
...within the past month seems to have emerged as West Europe's leader, seven of the eight were willing to give Wilson the talisman he needs to wave in front of the voters. France, which had called the summit, was less willing, and for a few hours, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (see page 37) sounded more Gaullist than le grand Charles. "There can be nothing of this kind," Giscard acidly said about Wilson's demands at one heated bargaining session. "Conceding what the British Prime Minister wants could mean that the United Kingdom will...
...several months now, the elegant salons of Paris' 16th arrondissement have been buzzing with gossip about the private life of French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Ever since the Paris daily Le Monde noted his penchant for mysterious nighttime disappearances from the Elysée Palace (TIME, Dec. 9), a favorite Paris parlor game has been to guess where, how arid with whom the President spends his evenings. Palace officials insist that Giscard's nocturnal wanderings involve nothing more adventurous than dropping in on old friends for a drink and a chat. They contend that...
Sister Marie Despina, 55, a scholarly Notre Dame de Sion* nun whose doctoral research on the subject provided considerable material for the A.J.C. report, says that Spain is by far the worst offender. There the legend of Domingo del Val, a choirboy allegedly crucified in the 13th century by Jews who hated his hymn singing, is still fresh. Sister Despina says that the chorister-patron saint of Spanish choirboys-never existed, and that the first documented reference to him dates only from 1587. Yet the cathedral of Zaragoza, she notes, has a brightly lit chapel to the young saint...
...doting donor is lessons in earthier arts that are certain to make the recipient the cocktail-party one-upsman (or woman) of 1975. How many of the gang, for example, will be able to boast of a day's skiing with coaching by Jean-Claude Killy at Val d'Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want to be the best dancer at the country...