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...shouted, "Giscard à la barre! [Giscard at the helm!]." Over in the Left Bank student quarter, meanwhile, small knots of young people gathered under the watchful gaze of riot police to shout sullenly, and absurdly, "A victory for fascism!" Such were the sharply distinct reactions to longtime Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's knife-edge victory over Socialist Françoise Mitterrand in France's presidential runoff last week...
Cold Civil War. Certainly Giscard has been offered an invitation to greatness. For nearly two decades, his country has stood as a near-perfect model of stability in Western Europe. But it was a stability achieved at the cost of political atrophy. With his victory, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing will bring a new generation into French political life. He is a modern practitioner of politics who wants to lay to rest the long cold civil war between the French left and right. To succeed, Giscard must persuade the other, less affluent half of France to follow...
...field down to two, and set the stage for one of the most bitter runoff campaigns in French political history. The contenders: Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, 57, who is running with increasing power, backed by both his own party and the Communists, and Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, the first Establishment candidate to win a shot at the Elysée without the support of the Gaullist old guard. If the polls are to be believed, the race could hardly be tighter: one French forecast gave Giscard 51 % of the vote and Mitterrand...
...conservatively cut pin-stripe suit, appearing more like a professor than a politician, strode toward the podium. Only a huge photo of him and his 14-year-old daughter decorated the former chapel of a convent in Colmar. Then quickly, his hands clasped behind his back, Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 48, broke into the pedantic delivery that has become a trademark in his campaign to succeed the late Georges Pompidou as President of France...
...VALÉRY GISCARD D'ESTAING, 48, Finance Minister off and on for nine years, has directed France's fortunes with a finesse that, despite the current troubles, has not only endeared him to the patronat-the French business establishment-but at the same time won him the respect of the man in the bistro. An urbane and brilliant economist, he is the only presidential contender who currently holds national office. That helps Giscard by giving him regular public exposure, but it also thrusts him into the firing line on problems such as unemployment (only 1.9% last year...