Word: clamart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shrewd Delay. Algeria was a word much spoken also in a courtroom in suburban Vincennes, where nine would-be assassins were on trial for having tried to kill De Gaulle last August in an ambuscade at Petit-Clamart, a Paris suburb. As has so often happened in France since the Dreyfus case of the 1890s, the trial was not confined to pertinent evidence but blossomed into a national political affair. Very few Frenchmen had much sympathy for the defendants, but many had grave doubts about how they were being tried...
...trial continued its flamboyant way, the wild rhetoric of the defendants could not conceal the implacable determination to kill. La Gloire summons French men in many directions. Five of the gunmen who took part in the Petit-Clamart ambush are still at large, including the most dangerous of all, Georges Watin, 39. nicknamed Boiteux (The Limper), who the police say was also the brains behind the Ecole Militaire plot. A French Cabinet minister, emerging from a meeting at the Elysée Palace last week, said worriedly to a friend: "Never has De Gaulle's life been in such...
...Deux-Eglises were President Charles de Gaulle and his wife Yvonne; up front with the chauffeur was the De Gaulles' son-in-law, Alain de Boissieu. Close behind followed a security car and two motorcycle policemen. As the small motorcade slowed down for a traffic circle in suburban Clamart, Old Soldier de Gaulle once again faced the guns of an enemy...
...Secret Army Organization, which has assigned nine "suicide squads" to the task of eliminating De Gaulle. Since fleeing from Algeria, S.A.O. gunmen have murdered scores of S.A.O. enemies, and obtained over $1,500,000 in holdups of French banks and post offices. Just minutes before the ambush at Clamart, De Gaulle had presided over an emergency Cabinet meeting called to take steps against S.A.O. terrorism...
...gnats, mosquitoes, ants and chiggers. George Washington's white-pillared manor house was equipped with electric lights for the first time in its history. White House Chef René Verdon presided proudly over Army field kitchens that served avocado and crabmeat mimosa, poulet chasseur avec couronne de riz clamart (hunter-style chicken with rice), framboises à la crème Chantilly and petits jours secs. After dinner, the guests strolled across the lawn to rows of camp chairs, settled back for a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra (selections: Mozart's Allegro con Spirito from Symphony...