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After the hours of arguing in the Cabinet Room at the White House last week, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin slowly started massaging the pectoral muscles on the left side of his chest. It was a nervous habit that betrayed the anxiety of a former heart-attack victim enduring new stress. In the wake of Israel's invasion of southern Lebanon, Begin had gone to Washington to defend his belligerent policies, and he had found little support in the White House. At one point, in what Begin later called "difficult days," President Carter tried to summarize the state of disagreement...
...ceremonies began with an uncommonly festive air. In the spacious Hall of the Frescoes in Rome's Palazzo Chigi, Giulio Andreotti, newly installed as Premier of his fourth government, was swearing in 46 new Cabinet Under Secretaries. After that, he would go to the adjoining Chamber of Deputies to present his new government and initiate the vote of confidence that for the first time in three decades would bring Italy's Communist Party into the parliamentary majority. Just as the oaths were being completed, an official raced up with a message. Andreotti's face froze. The news...
Still, center-right politicians were careful not to issue triumphal statements, for fear of inducing voter apathy. "The main lesson of the first round is that the French were not deceived by the demagogic promises with which the left hoped to seduce them," said Premier Raymond Barre, adding prudently that "nothing is lost, but nothing is won yet." Although the leftist momentum had been arrested, there were a number of constituencies where the second-round election would be decided by the narrowest of margins. "If just a few of our supporters decide to go fishing on March 19, we could...
...increased spending, taxes and inflation that a leftist government might bring. Moreover, many previously undecided voters, and moderate Socialists as well, were astonished at the news of Mitterrand's giveaway of ministries to the Communists. MITTERRAND YIELDS TO MARCHAIS'S DIKTAT, headlined the conservative daily Le Figaro. Premier Barre called the leftist accord a "masquerade," a "deception" and a "masterpiece of evasion...
...other hand, if the left should succeed in squeaking through, Giscard would be confronted by an intractable National Assembly, a clutch of Communists in his Cabinet and a hostile Premier-perhaps Francois Mitterrand himself-committed to reversing his most cherished policies. Measuring all the equations, conservative Economist Jean Fourastié recently provided the best summing up. Said he: "It will not be pleasant to hold power...