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Carter's enthusiasm for Great Britain's James Callaghan is that of one pol for another. His regard for France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is rooted in the Frenchman's intellect. Egypt's Anwar Sadat made sense to Carter. "I wouldn't mind spending a weekend fishing with him," said Carter about Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau. While he was in London, the President met with the leaders of 16 nations from Luxembourg to Greece. He was armed with personal fact sheets and psychological profiles of each...
...beer and sandwiches. To entice shutterbugs, some Shell stations have installed Fotomat shops next to their pumps. The majors have also started selling private-label gas brands that are not expensively advertised and can be sold at rock-bottom prices. Mobil, for example, has introduced Big Bi and Hi Val gas in some areas. This practice has often put the majors in direct competition with their own stations...
...Nuclear energy is at the crossroads of the two independences of France: the independence of her defense and the independence of her energy supply." So said President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing while visiting Pierrelatte, the French Los Alamos, just before last week's battle. France has no oil and very little coal, and the 1973 Arab oil boycott dramatically demonstrated French reliance on foreign energy. Since 1974, as a result, the government has organized an ambitious atomic-energy program to provide at least 40 conventional nuclear-power plants and a 1,200-megawatt fast-neutron plant...
...edge of Djibouti harbor. As a 21-gun salute boomed out and fireworks lit up the night sky, the French Territory of the Afars and Issas (T.F.A.I.) became the Republic of Djibouti, Africa's 50th independent state. The most notable visitor present at the celebrations: President Valèry Giscard d'Estaing, who was scheduled to fly in from Paris for a few hours to offer congratulations. The newborn republic faces a most uncertain future. Last week TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs visited Djibouti and cabled this report...
...somehow find a way to maintain the labor force." Dassault was talking about takeover by a left-wing government, should the Socialist-Communist opposition win the parliamentary election scheduled for next spring. Last week, however, a step toward nationalization came early, from a different direction. The government of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announced that it was taking a 34% participation in Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (1976 sales: $1.2 billion) without compensating the company's two owners, Dassault and his 52-year-old son, Serge. The stock transfer will be covered by canceling debts that...