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President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was assailed for callously leaving Paris on a private weekend the night of the tragedy. Premier Raymond Barre made matters worse for the government when he carelessly told a television interviewer that the bomb was "aimed at Jews worshiping in a synagogue, but struck four innocent Frenchmen who crossed the Rue Copernic." Without meaning to, Barre had implied that the Jews inside were neither completely French nor completely innocent...
...fact Schmidt's considerable triumph in the Oct. 5 national elections left him in the strongest political position of any Western European leader. France's President Valéry discard d'Estaing was bracing for a spring election that could reduce his standing with the voters. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher faced sharp criticism for her monetarist program. But Schmidt, 61, overseer of the Continent's healthiest major economy (5.1% inflation and 3.5% unemployment) had a new mandate to govern for another four years, probably without serious challenge...
...accords] was a tactical retreat by the government. Warsaw needed to fend off the danger of Soviet invasion and get the workers back to their jobs. Now the clawing back of what was given on paper begins." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, moreover, had special reason for gloom: both men got on well with Gierek and saw his relative openness to the West as an important factor in maintaining European détente...
...have shown such distrust of the stock market as France. For decades, the average Frenchman has preferred stashing away gold coins to investing in the country's industry. For the past two years, however, the French Bourse has been on a rampage, thanks to a campaign by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to "make the French owners of France...
...Paris, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing did not deem Anderson important enough to grant him an audience, but the Congressman did meet with French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet and had a long discussion with Premier Raymond Barre...