(15 Sep 1977) The summit meeting of France's three leftist opposition parties ended in disarray, when the leader of the movement of the radical left, Robert Fabre, stalked out of the talks. Fabre refused to make concessions in his party's demands for sweeping nationalization of industry. Fabre's action left Communist Party leader Georges Marchais appealing to the Socialists to continue the talks, called to update the union of the left's so-called "common program" for the national assembly elections scheduled for march. The program has not been updated since it was signed in 1972, and has provoked much dissension in recent months. Meanwhile, the Socialists were maintaining a discreet silence on the squabble, perhaps anxious to avoid the kind of split that hurt President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's majority coalition when Jacques Chirac was elected mayor of Paris. The Socialist leader, Francois Mitterand, spoke about the common program at a press conference in Paris.
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