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...international worker solidarity, another food kiosk sold sangria and the message: SPAIN IN THE COMMON MARKET. A BAD BLOW FOR FRANCE. Workers hawked dish towels underneath a sign pleading SAVE THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY OF THE VOSGES. Break-the-bottle games featured images of such popular villains as French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, that advocate of dreaded social democracy...
...ephemeral component of credibility that might explain the graying CBS anchorman's enormous popularity. A faction in the state television monopoly wanted to replace the reigning crew of bland newsreaders with a single, reassuringly credible, American-style anchorman-en effet, a French Walter Cronkite. In 1974 French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made that scheme possible by splitting the monopoly into three parts. Officials of Télévision Française I, one of the new state-owned but competing channels, were given only two months to find a suitable anchor, so they took...
...favorite saint, Ryan says, is Venice's Pope St. Pius X, whom Luciani has often cited in his sermons. (Pius X is often remembered as the Pope who condemned Modernism, but that act was largely the work of his eminence grise Cardinal Merry del Val; Luciani, though, has revered Pius as the man who encouraged frequent reception of Communion and attendance at Mass.) The Venetian connection...
...idea of forming a monetary union. Each time, attempts at linking national currencies were abandoned as premature because of widely different rates of inflation and economic growth within the European Community. The foundering dollar, though, has overshadowed these objections. Spurred by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the Common Market is moving rapidly and seriously toward a new monetary scheme that would stabilize currencies of the nine member nations and thus enhance trade among them. It would also distance members from the influence of the weakening dollar and create a rival...
...imports. Britain's James Callaghan, who faces elections in the fall, was the most cautious. He pledged only to continue his present policy of expanding output by a modest 1 % while keeping up the fight against inflation, now down to 7.4% from 27% four years ago. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing promised to pep up the French economy a bit by more government spending, doubling the nation's deficit to $4.4 billion this year...