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...Val Vardamis Bangor...
...usually sedate French National Assembly has lately become a scene of turmoil and dissension. Cabals of Deputies huddle up and down the splendid baronial halls. Ministers discuss the latest parliamentary tricks. The visitors' gallery is packed. Reason for all the drama: President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's proposed capital gains...
...French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing likes to say, "France represents what is best in the world." But not, surely, when it comes to telephones. By almost any standard, France trails the rest of the major countries. It has the fewest private telephones in relation to total population (117.5 per 1,000 v. 460 per 1,000 in the U.S.), the fewest public ones (4.3 per 1,000 v. 13.9 in West Germany), and the longest waiting time for new installations (up to seven years...
While France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was touring the U.S. last week, many Americans were reading his views on their country at 200 in a new TIME feature, inaugurated in last week's issue, called "Message to America." Giscard's message-which, among other things, is that the U.S. is seen as a land of "enterprise, initiative, movement" and "prodigious resiliency"-was the first in a series of letters written for TIME by foreign leaders that we plan to publish periodically as part of our Bicentennial observance. The series is intended...
From the moment he alighted in the U.S. last week, France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing put his-and his country's-best foot forward...