Giscard d’Estaing faces
runoff in French election
PARIS (AP) — Pres. Valery Giscard d’Estaing
led a field of 10 candidates Sunday in the first
round of the French presidential election and
headed for a runoff rematch with Socialist Fran
cois Mitterrand, the Interior Ministry announced.
Giscard d’Estaing, running for a second
seven-year term, defeated Mitterand in a runoff in
1974 by a slim 1.6 percent margin.
Computer projections made for French radio
and television gave Giscard d’Estaing 28.9 per
cent of the vote to 25.1 percent to Mitterand, who
is making his third bid for the presidency.
Gaullist leader Jacques Chirac, mayor of
Paris and a former premier under Giscard d’E
staing, was third with 17.7 percent followed by
Communist Party chief Georges Marchais with
16.0 percent.
Because no candidate won an absolute
majority, voters will return to the polls May 10 to
choose between the two top candidates.
Freezing rain on the French Riviera and a
dusting of snow elsewhere limited the turnout.
The Interior Ministry estimated that 80.7 percent
of the more than 36 million registered voters had
cast their ballots, compared with 84.2 percent in
1974. Observers blamed the weather.
Rioting spreads in Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Hundreds
of rioters battled hundreds of police in Belfast and
London Sunday in support of jailed IRA guerrilla
Bobby Sands, reported at a skeletal 98 pounds in
the 57th day of a hunger strike. Prison officials
denied widespread rumors he had died.
About 500 Sands’ supporters demonstrated
at a subway station and near Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher’s 10 Downing Street
residence in London. Thirty-eight people were
arrested, and three ambulances carried away an
undetermined number of injured.
Police forced the demonstrators into a street
behind the posh Savoy Hotel and split them into
two groups. After scuffles and shouting, the
demonstrators dispersed. Thirty-eight people
were reported arrested and three ambulances
carried away an undetermined number of injured.
British police warned members of Parliament
and other public figures to be wary of a possible
letter-bomb campaign by Irish Republican Army
guerrillas.
They issued the warning after Barry Porter, a
41-year-old Conservative Party legislator,
received an incendiary device through the mail
Saturday The device did not go off even though
he started to open it.
In Belfast, rioters pitched firebombs at a bus
depot in the Roman Catholic Ardoyne district of
Belfast, then hundreds of youths broke away from
some 6,000 people attending a rally for Sands and
hurled bricks, stones and lead pipes
Polish Catholic leader
suffering from illness
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski,
leader of Poland’s influential
Roman Catholic Church and a
voice of moderation in the labor
conflict, will require “lengthy
treatment” for medical prob
lems, the church announced
Sunday.
The 79-year-old primate has
been ill for several weeks and
was unable to conduct public
Mass during this year’s Easter
celebrations. Church officials
said he was suffering from
digestive problems, but did not
elaborate.
Announcement of Wyszyns
ki’s condition was made during
the broadcast of Mass over
Warsaw Radio. The state-run
radio has broadcast Mass
every Sunday since September
as a concession to the inde
pendent trade union Solidarity,
which has close ties to the
church in this communist-ruled
nation.
‘‘The secretariat of the Polish
episcopate informs us that the
primate of Poland, Cardinal
Stefan Wyszynski, is still being
treated at his residence,” the
announcement said.
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