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...situation. "Every time somebody gets socked, it's worth at least 100 and perhaps 1,000 votes to the Gaullists," said one ranking French Communist. To counter this, the Communists sought to project themselves as a patriotic party of moderation. "We are not adventurers!" cried Party Boss Waldeck Rochet. In the worst moments of the revolt, he claimed with some justification, it was the Communists who had "barred the road to bloody adventure." His appeal: "For peace and national independence, vote Communist...
...Waldeck Rochet's tactics showed the remarkable transformation of what only a decade ago was Western Europe's most rigidly Stalinist party. Nevertheless, the Gaullists continued to hammer home to French voters that they have only two choices: De Gaulle or totalitarian Communism. "The danger is still there," warned Premier Georges Pompidou. "If the opportunity should present itself anew, the totalitarian party is ready to start again to seize power." Though this view was rejected by De Gaulle's opponents, it had an undisputed appeal to conservative Frenchmen, especially those in the provinces, who are shocked...
Communist Party (P.C.) Leader: Waldeck Rochet, 63 Seats in old Assembly: 71 Candidates...
...party of order and political wisdom," P.C. Boss Waldeck Rochet called it last week. No paradigm of classic Marxist militancy, the party jumped embarrassingly late onto the student-worker bandwagon and has generally. played a restraining role in the current crisis. De Gaulle made the Communists respectable by wooing Moscow and the East; they like his foreign policy, but dislike his authoritarianism at home and remain the focus of anti-Gaullism among many workers, the poor and some intellectuals. Prospects: some increase in Assembly seats...
...Ursula Andress, 32, the smoky Swiss beauty of The Tenth Victim and Dr. No, all swaddled in an ankle-length car duster. And that about describes her latest flick, Southern Star, currently shooting in the wilds of Senegal. Ursula spends most of the movie jouncing around in a 1912 Rochet-Schneider trying to spring her fiancé (George Segal) from the local hoosegow where he's been tossed by her dad as a suspected jewel thief. But voyeurs need not despair: hopefully, in Ursula's next film it's back to the undressed Andress...