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...government from an emergency command post set up near his office in the Hotel Matignon. When some Ministers started cracking under the strain (one took to packing a pistol under his coat, another wanted to crush the rebellion in the same way that he had put down Algerian terrorism), Pompidou calmly took over their responsibilities. Sleeping in snatches near his desk and eating little but snacks, he urged concessions for the dissident students when others counseled a show of strength. He hammered out an agreement that eventually ended labor's general strike, and he pleaded with De Gaulle...
Then he clashed with De Gaulle over the scheduled execution of a leader in the Algerian generals' putsch. De Gaulle gave in, granting clemency, when Pompidou threatened to resign. From then on, Pompidou determined to venture farther away from De Gaulle's towering shadow. In 1967, he ordered most of his government, himself included, to enter Assembly elections; elected from his native Auvergne, he finally gained a local power base...
WHAT ever happened to la grandeur? For ten years France appeared on the world scene like a golden phoenix miraculously resuscitated from the ashes of the Fourth Republic, the agony of the Algerian war, and the long shame of the Vichy collaboration with Hitler. The man who accomplished this miracle of recovery was Charles de Gaulle, who in 1958 took over a nation with a mere $19 million left in its treasury and even less moral credit around the world. He restored both the franc and France's prestige. He also restored French pride: even casual visitors in the years...
Emerging from his weekly Cabinet meeting in Algiers' Palais du Gouvernement, Algerian President Houari Bou-mediene climbed into his black Citroën to go to lunch with Minister of State Rabat Bitat. As the car began to roll down the Esplanade de 1'Afrique, a child stepped forward with a petition...
...efforts to save Algeria's floundering economy by replacing revolutionaries with technocrats. Algeria's labor unionists are also at odds with Boumediene: they consider him not Marxist enough and blame him for an unemployment of 5,000,000, nearly half the work force. The small Algerian middle class hates Boumediene for dispossessing it from its once privileged position. And then, of course, there are Algeria's political exiles...