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...1960s, says University of Paris Political Scientist Olivier Duhamel, French intellectuals identified imperialism with the U.S. "Now they not only identify imperialism with the Soviet Union, they are even beginning to identify anti-imperialism with the U.S." Not just Marxism, but the very idea of "collectivism" has waned in the French academic mind. "Pluralism," "individualism," "the limits of public power" are all increasingly in vogue...
...show biz (industrie du spectacle). Officials are busy coining replacements for such computer terms as hardware (materiel) and software (logiciel). While the language may be under assault, French pride--and what would France be without it?--remains / indestructible. "We find it hard to admit direct American influence," says Duhamel with a smile. "In the classroom, for instance, instead of admitting that we have rediscovered the American Revolution, we tend to say we have rediscovered Alexis de Tocqueville, who dissected it, and who was a great French political philosopher...
...power he has accumulated during his term. Few disagree that he has concentrated presidential authority to a greater degree than either De Gaulle or Georges Pompidou, his two Fifth Republic predecessors. "France is governed by an elected sovereign, a republican monarch, almost an enlightened despot " writes French Journalist Alain Duhamel [Giscard] is at the same time the Queen of England and Her Majesty's Prime Minister...
...Jacques Duhamel, 44, Agriculture Minister, was an outspoken critic of the Gaullist regime. Centrist Duhamel campaigned energetically against De Gaulle in the 1968 general election, decrying the general's policies regarding NATO and the Middle East and his "ten years of personal power and arrogance." During this spring's presidential campaign, he hesitated between Pompidou and Alain Poher, picked the winning side when Pompidou promised to abolish the propaganda-prone Ministry of Information (a promise that Pompidou kept last week). Handsome and brainy, Duhamel is forthrightly Europe-minded and pro-U.S.-and almost certainly headed for frequent...
...presidency and the legislature, between the old France and the new. Politically, Pompidou's unity would doubtless begin at home -in his Cabinet. Some of his most important support has come from outside the Gaullist party, notably from Independent Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Centrist Jacques Duhamel. The endorsements will no doubt be handsomely repaid. Giscard d'Estaing, a successful Finance Minister under De Gaulle, was considered a likely candidate to become Foreign Minister under Pompidou -partly because his most important conditions for support involved working toward European political unity. For the job of prime minister, Pompidou...