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Franco-Soviet Relations. Mitterrand is likely to take a harder line toward the Soviet Union than Giscard-despite his relationship with Moscow's most loyal European Communist Party. The President-elect strongly denounced the Afghanistan invasion and, as one senior British diplomat observed, "has no illusions about Soviet motivations and intentions." Pravda, which praised Giscard's commitment to detente and was openly rooting for him in the election, lamented last week that the Socialist leader would probably adopt the " 'tough positions' of the Western side...
...when Yankee-General Manager Gabe Paul wouldn't hire him: "He said I drank too much and then went out and hired Bob Lemon," Fowler said, "Do you believe that?") and says he has never had any problems. "I think he's the greatest, he's been loyal and never lied to me. The players love him because they know he'll be on their side a hundred per cent. He just loves the game, and it just kills him when he loses...
...read and boiled down to a few sheets. "We worked a lot of nights into the wee hours," says Stockman with a wan smile. Nor was that flood of hundreds of congressional initiatives his only fare. When Nixon proposed chopping 112 federal programs in 1973, Stockman and his loyal band delved into each...
...name of God.' Well, not exactly. It happens that Ireland was the first victim of British imperialism, and, as it turns out, among the last. The English finally subdued the Celts at the Battle of the Boyne close to 400 years ago; quickly they peopled the nation with subjects loyal to the crown. And the Irish have been fighting since. They've had their victories, of course. The biggest came in 1920 when they won the 26 counties of the south of Ireland. But the loyalist Protestant-dominated North (they still call themselves "Orangemen" in tribute to William of Orange...
Predicted Pollster Jerome Jaffre: "Most Chirac supporters will remain loyal to the center-right, but as many as one out of four may not." If Jaffre is right, more than a million neo-Gaullists voting against Giscard or abstaining in the second round could rob the President of reelection...