Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drifting aimlessly like a man without a country, Bidault today is a pathetic fugitive who drinks too much and talks too much. With the kidnaping of ex-Colonel Antoine Argoud in Munich five weeks ago, and the virtual removal from active operations of Jacques Soustelle, the S.A.O.'s political boss, France's government claims that the movement that once struck terror in the hearts of Frenchmen has just about fallen apart. Hounded by the 61,000-man police force of Interior Minister Roger Frey, the S.A.O. is no longer able to maintain commando units in each of France...
...Swissair Flight 227 to Zurich taxied onto the runway at Munich last week, it was followed closely by a black police limousine. Not until the Convair disappeared into the night did the plainclothesman inside the car return to headquarters to report that Georges Bidault, 63, former Premier of France and now self-styled operational chief of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, had left West Germany. For the first time since Bidault was traced to his hideaway in a rural villa last month, Bavaria's Minister of Interior Heinrich Junker breathed easily. Sighed he: "A heavy cross...
...Bidault did not leave Munich without a vow to "continue my fight against De Gaulle until freedom has been restored in my country.'' Landing in Portugal under an assumed name, he was given even less chance to plot against De Gaulle's life than he enjoyed in easygoing Bavaria; almost as soon as he turned up at a Lisbon rooming house, security cops hauled him off to a suburban Lisbon villa. He was expected to seek refuge in South America...
...when he called reporters in for interviews, Bidault insisted that his political activities were far from over. "I am the leader of the National Resistance Council. I am the boss of it all," he boasted. In France, there was only official silence. Fact was, the French government was delighted that the troublemaker was in Germany, where he was under continual surveillance, and was babbling a little too much to the press to enhance his reputation...
...With Bidault on ice, De Gaulle turned his attention to the continuing, crippling strike of 188,000 miners in the nationalized coal fields of northern France, who were demanding wage scales on a par with workers in private industry. Rumors circulated that S.A.O. members, disguised as cops, would attack the strikers to provoke them to violence against the government, but the only toll of the strike so far was economic. Thousands of steel and natural gas workers went out on a sympathy strike, and a 24-hour rail walkout cre.ated a transportation tie-up all over France. Into Paris drove...