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...violence often adds to, rather than detracts from their claim to respectability. Thus it is quite possible, if an independent Palestinian state is ever established, that statues of Arafat will some day be erected in the plazas of Nablus, like the plaques and statues of Eamon de Valéra in Ireland and Emiliano Zapata in Mexico. The fact that the leader of the P.L.O. appeared at the U.N. showed that it is already becoming respectable in the eyes of much of the world. "Respectability depends on whose side you're on," says Oxford Historian Alastair Buchan...
Charles de Gaulle used to enjoy singing La Marseillaise, but French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing apparently does not even like to hear it. "The President of the Republic thinks Ihe familiar version is too rapid, loo chromatic. He just does not like it," says Roger Boutry, professor of harmony at the Paris Music Conservatory. Boutry should know, since he was commissioned by le Président to compose a new version of the national anthem last June. "I have done a new arrangement," explains Boutry, "taken the drums out, changed the rhythm and the harmony, altered...
...loathing for the United Nations and accept an assignment last year as U.S. representative on the U.N. Human Rights Committee? "Pure undiluted Walter Mittyism" seized him, Buckley confesses. Single-handed he would hold the world body spellbound as he read from Solzhenitsyn or pleaded the case for Ballet Dancer Valéry Panov. He would cajole, mesmerize, seduce, intimidate the delegates. The soaring Buckley vision of man's rights, in fact, might "repristinate" the jaded international bureaucracy...
...first press conference in July, France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing fielded questions while standing behind a lectern. At his second conference last week he somberly remained seated, in perhaps unconscious symbolism of the dour words to follow. Sounding like a Spengler with a French accent, for much of the conference he all but prophesied the decline of the West...
Deep Roots. All this was clear to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a thoughtful innoivator when he won the presidency May. "Our agricultural history has left the people with deep roots in the land," a top aide said, reflecting the view his chief. "The French can only be satisfied with an urban environment that also green." Giscard soon acted to Paris green...