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1970s
Pompidou’s austerity measures seemed to be working for a while…
A pickup in the economy
- IMF loan repaid
- Reserves built up
- Industrial production recovered
- GNP increased by 5.8% in 1972
- But then came the Yom Kippur War in 1973
- Followed by Arab retaliation against the West for its support of Israel.