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...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...
...Gaulle's most prominent foe. ex-Premier Georges Bidault, now a ranking S.A.O. chieftain, was as publicly defiant as ever. He could afford to be, for he was now holed up in southern Germany, where, after a nervous brushoff by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he sought political asylum from the state of Bavaria. Bathed in publicity and surrounded by police, he obviously was not doing his resistance organization much concrete good in a distant German villa...
...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...