Word: edmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dimly lit courtroom of the Palais de Justice, ex-General Raoul Salan had openly accepted responsibility for armed rebellion against De Gaulle's government and for more than 400 documented killings committed by his Secret Army Organization in Algeria. His deputy in the S.A.O., ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, had already been condemned to death. Two days before the Salan trial ended, an official asked newly appointed Justice Minister Jean Foyer where Salan should be imprisoned if his life were spared; Foyer dismissed the question as an "idiotic assumption." But last week, after deliberating 2½ hours, the nine...
...soldier for the last time from the country for which Raoul Salan, after 44 years of fighting France's enemies, had himself become an enemy of France. Though he is already under sentence of death in absentia, by French law Salan must stand trial. Like ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, Salan's chief lieutenant who was captured a month ago, he is certain to be sentenced to the guillotine, barring last-minute clemency by De Gaulle...
...were on the roof of the Palais de Justice, at the doors, and inside the dim-lit gilt and paneled courtroom. On the dais sat a nine-man tribunal consisting of three French generals, three magistrates, two civilians and an admiral. In the dock last week appeared bullnecked, tough Edmond Jouhaud. 57. a former general who served as air force chief of staff, most recently No. 2 chieftain of the Secret Army Organization in Algeria, where last month he was ignominiously arrested without a fight...
Enter FSAgent McCloskey (Edmond O'Brien), a sort of secret inoperative who growls all the right things ("Send this to the lab-and tell them to rush it ... There will be NO slipups!"), does all the wrong things, and spends his spare time staring wide-eyed at the cops-and-robbers shows on TV. Since McCloskey has never caught anything more elusive than a cold, it's a cinch he can't catch Lyrae, who has been sent from a friendly planet to correct a defect in the moon rocket. Alas, such is interplanetary life, she falls...
...Oran, the army had better luck. Troops searching an apartment block turned up a bearded man with curious credentials; after hours of interrogation, he admitted that he was ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, the S.A.O.'s No. 2 man. Jouhaud was promptly flown to France for the trial that might cost him his life...