Word: argoud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been rewarded by Franco's jailing of six top anti-Gaullist terrorists who were hiding out in Spain. Banning the Stalingrad show may just possibly have been repaid last week when German police failed to prevent mysterious French agents in Munich from kidnaping a top S.A.O. leader, Antoine Argoud (see below). But it seemed unlikely that Khrushchev would care greatly if Nureyev danced in Paris, or that Adenauer would object to being damned by Nikita on TV. On the other hand, when a government is not subject to censure or legal redress, who expects logic...
...woman customer listened idly one afternoon last week while a thickset, somberly dressed stranger used the public telephone at. La Esmeralda café, across the square from Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral. "This is the S.A.O.," he barked. "Yes, the S.A.O. We're giving you Argoud. He betrayed us, bungled all the jobs he was supposed to organize, particularly the Petit-Clamart affair. You can take delivery of him now. He's in a blue truck in the alley opposite Notre-Dame...
...started filling with French police. Just as the man said, a small delivery truck was parked in the alley, and inside it the gendarmes found a gagged, trussed, middle-aged man. Lifting the blindfold, a cop peered at the battered, bloody face and nodded: "It looks like Argoud...
Fasching Brawl. Ever since April 1961, ex-Colonel Antoine-Charles-Louis-Marie Argoud, 48, had been one of the terrorist Secret Army Organization's top leaders. Earlier, as a sector commander in Algeria, he was famed for his use of psychological warfare tactics against the rebel F.L.N. An Argoud specialty: exhibiting in the streets bodies of executed Moslem prisoners as a warning. After leaving Algeria, he grew a beard and shuttled anonymously between Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Argoud had already been sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1961 Generals' Putsch, and, as a member...
Soon after the Paris press headlined the story of the arrest, l'affaire Argoud was turned into a first-rate international whodunit by the owner of Munich's Hotel Eden Wolff, who said that the S.A.O. leader had checked in there the previous night. Three hours after he had registered, said the hotelman, two men entered the lobby and sent a note up to his room. Argoud came down and spoke to his visitors, who showed him something. All three started out the door together, but then Argoud tried to pull away. The other two grabbed him, hauled...