Word: arthus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alive. Two spoke in husky voices because of face and throat wounds from recent S.A.O. attacks; a third had barely lived through five assassination attempts in a single year-including a grenade thrown into his hospital room while he was recovering from an earlier wounding. General Jean Arthus, chief of the gendarmerie in Oran, said that eleven of his own men had been killed by the S.A.O., and 50 wounded. "For us," he said grimly, "the man responsible was Jouhaud...