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With the Tigers playing on their home links, they promise to be especially tough. Harvard lost to both Yale and Princeton by close margins last year, and first-year coach Val Belmonte said most players find the Princeton course difficult when tackling it for the first time...
...promised to intensify the country's inflation fight by means of low budget deficits and controlled monetary growth. But there are trouble signs: pressure is building to hold wages down, which would surely enrage the highly politicized unions and endanger the 1981 re-election prospects of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing share Washington's view that the Soviets must withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. The two leaders also believe that Carter overreacted to the invasion, largely because of domestic political considerations. Bonn has tried to play down the transatlantic differences, stressing that they involve approach rather than objectives. Nonetheless, the result has been a closer relationship between Bonn and Paris, culminating in the Schmidt-Giscard summit in the French capital last month. As a Bonn official put it, both men "felt strongly that they had to protect Western Europe...
...journalism than of fast-moving fiction. Virtually all the international figures in The Fifth Horseman-the important exception being the U.S. President-are identified and living people. Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's daughter Hassia plays the piano in the family's Jerusalem apartment; France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has a secret meeting with his top aides to discuss energy matters...
...Americans-and indeed to many Europeans-the reaction was irritatingly familiar. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt issued a joint statement strongly condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Three days later, Paris abruptly declared that it would not be represented at a German-sponsored meeting of Western European foreign ministers with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Bonn. Once again, France stood out as seemingly arrogant and as the ally least disposed to back Washington in an international crisis...