Word: yvon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...themselves in a paradoxical position, reluctant to condemn an intervention that is in line with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre" outburst was meant mainly for home consumption, as a ploy to retain the support of Communists and left-wing Socialists. After all, said Blot, "Reagan has merely recognized the fact that France, because of its colonial past...
...eight months after an 8.5% devaluation against the mark, last week's realignment was the turning point in the 13-month-old attempt by the Socialist government to spur economic growth and curb unemployment through government spending-an approach diametrically opposed to that of the Reagan Administration. Said Yvon Gattaz, the peppery president of France's National Council of Employers: "No developed country can, without damage, go against the anti-inflation policies practiced in the rest of the world...