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Show 16A Sundoy Herald eeee = = Genes %™ DeGaulle Era Over But His Strong Man Legacy Lingers PARIS (U is over. Gaullismitself French tod ¢ June de J. tion, much of é the of Charles de Gaulle “strong man” years rule Fifth Republic he linger on i But is not dead Whoever wins 15) tthe —The De G era in F ‘ . and the British pound from riots and a general strike of 10 Surop the European f - He consi what he termed their unjusti- million Fri workurs shook is the KEY WORDto describethis... fidence as never American- fied “favored” positions, He the nation demanaed a total overhaul of before. The French france began to ed relations with the world monetary system,! layed coupled with a doubling of the slide. A drain on France's gold ja and play and the dered Sritain too created will /° . " There will be changes, of course, and Ameriecas™ = “1 ECONOMY GAS AND FAMOUS MONARCH head of a “third force” ordered U.S. and other allied closest friend in the Middle East. independent of both forces out of France. The first major shock to ne United States and the Soviet He used his immense gold Gaullist pride came in May and Union and foreign currency stockpile part of this policy, he to try to oust the U.S. dollar June last year. Nearly a month of student vetoed Britain's bid for By JOSEPH W. GRIGG Miler and foreign exchange stockpile with the Soviet price of gold To please the Arabs and the set in. The original six billion Union In 1966 he led France out of Soviet Union, he clamped down dollars hoard now is down to a Gaulle in the Apri ‘itU-'the military side of the North a total arms boycott against little more than three billion tional reierendum, the French atjanti (NATO) Alliance and Israel, previously France's dollars. 2 By voting people “non showed it wanted changes. But the changes, If You Love Your Children You‘d; Better Belt ‘Em Auto ClubInsists ! when they come, are unlike'y to be sudden of revolutionary They will be changes in “Style.” as Gaullist candidate Georges Pompidou has put it Some of the methods and the policies, Cente too, will change if y candidate Alain Poher wirs. By DAVID W. CHUTE [also be't their children. ,campaign of preaching and 1 DETROIT (UPI)—" If you) Reyniear Staats, coordinator |practicing for children in cars— love ‘em, belt ‘em” is a new of special projects for the auto| yet that’s where most child Untouched slogan dedicated to sparing the|club's Safety and Traffic |traffic injuries occur i basic legacy of 11 child, but has nothing to do |Division, says a child standing] The auto club advises that ff years of the most politically |with spoiling the rod. {up in a car, or lying down on|seat belts should be worn by alll and economically stable rule) t's the slogan of a new drive|the back seat, becomes ajchild passengers over 5 years ff France hes known this century|by the Automobile Cub of|human projectile in a sudden old. What about the infants is likely to remain untouched. | Michigan to reduce injuries and |stop. Whether the car is in an |then? | One of the most often cited \deaths to children in automobile jaccident or not, the child stands| They advise child seats quotativns from De Gaulle is|accidents, It's a campaign that|a good chance of being injured|the toadlers that fit onto the opening words of his World|could be—and perhaps should|by being thrown against the|seat of the car and utilize WarII memoirs. |be—made nationwide. |back of the front seat, the|safetybelt to hold the seat, “All mylife Ihave thought of} for the| the and The auto club became|instrument pane] or the wind-|special child belts to restrain| France without grandeur alarmed whenstatistics showed |shield, even if the driver escapes|the child. These are available] (greatness).” \that injuries to child passengers|an accident by hard jamming|almost everywhere now. Both It was De Gaulle’s search for /between the ages of infancy |of the brakes. General Motors and Ford have| “grandeur” that gave the Fifth|and 14 years jumped more than| Ke points out that safety-|designed children’s seats speci Republic its strength and its|58 per cent in 1968, compared communities have|fically for the under-five group| character. It was his stubborn|with 1967, strides in reducing|and they sell for under $20. refusal to relax it that! In Michigan, nearly 7 out of ultimately led to his downfall./every 19 children injured in When De Gaulle was swepttraffic were riding in automo- back to power in May, 1958, on|biles, Only 3 of 10 children the ruins of the crumbling |injured in traffic were riding in ANraaireed 1 ” accidents to children} Babies under five years of! those going to or/age should not be belted in al school. Safety precautions |seat with restraint belts similar 30 i procedures have been/to older children or adults effective for|because their bodies are not Operating economy plus a lew, low price Fourth Republic, Frenchmen automchiles. Only 3 of 10 were I! children. Staats |sufficient!y developed for their Sought one thing above all—|pedestrian or bicycle victims. said that of all children injured |internal organs to withstand the 1 stability. Since Michigan is a fairly jin pedestrian accidents, only |great pressures exerted by the! After more than 20 changes typicalstate, it's probable this|one in ten is a child on the way|belt in a sudden stop. of government and repeated! ratio applies pretty closely to\to or from school. This is| The Automobile Club all devaluations of the franc in 14|the nation as a whole. because concerned communities |Michigan is hopeful that its years, Frenchmen had lost Belt Children and parents makeit a point to|campaign, being waged with Confidence in their rulers and) So a campaign is on io|preach safety and have their billboards. posters and bumper their economy. convince parents that not only|children practiceit. stickers, will reverse the De Gaulle restored that to should they buckle seat belts on No Car Campaign jupward trend of child injuries a pee with national self- themselves, espect - place of the as great as, if not greater than those of the President of the United States. Fired Two During the more they should than : tl years De Gaulle waspresident, | France had only three prime ministers. They were named by| De Gaulle himself and the two| who fe!l were fired by him. | Within months after taking (ll Office, he devalued the franc to a realistic level, scrapped the i inflation-ridden old franc and | created a “hard” Gaullist new| franc in its place. Through stringent economic I Policies be gradually filled the | naton's emptycoffers. By the) middle of 1968 his gold and| foreign currency ‘in topped the six billion dollars mark and were a major {W economic weaponused ruthlessly by De Gaulle against the 1 United States and Britain. When hetook over, De Gaulle J found France bogged down| Nothing pleases like the lasting gift of famous RC aeel soe apart PORTABLE STEREO FABULOUS STEREO SOUND All Magnavox potable stereos fir hg ‘thvilling round. Model 2503 — mond Stylus = etSa oneal range speckers, plus slim-and-trim, enry-tocarry eae, Weighs fess than 131% ths, Brings you clearest, sharpest pictures — even from distant stations. 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