Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Counted Blessings. De Gaulle's personal popularity, once unquestioned, has obviously dropped over the past year. But, just as obviously, no one else's popularity has shown any startling rise. In his year-end speech, De Gaulle once again asked the French to count their Gaullist blessings-a far more stable government, far fewer strikes...
...sufficient to last only a few days, after which any putsch would theoretically be "asphyxiated." Disaffection has gradually spread from the 400,000-man force in Algeria to the French army in France and in West Germany, where two divisions recently returned from Algeria have become hotbeds of anti-Gaullist intrigue...
...people are tired of fighting, the army is tired of retreat," he said. Gaullist tactics aimed at ending the politically divisive Algerian war have not yet improved matters. "Peace isn't much nearer, and the tragedy most certainly is," he said...
...Campesino's commandos slipped into Spain to blow up a power station. They failed but, getting back to France, killed a Spanish civil guard, wounded another. Franco sent a note of protest to Paris, France, however, pointed out that Spain was giving asylum to dozens of anti-Gaullist conspirators. Dashing Pierre Lagaillarde, 30, who led the 1960 Algiers "revolt of the barricades." was photographed lolling beside the pool at the exclusive Real Madrid Club. Ex-General Raoul Salan, head of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, used Spain as a safe retreat to receive visitors and plan rebellion...
Last week the French police suddenly tossed El Campesino into jail. Almost at once, Spanish security police returned the compliment by rounding up 17 anti-Gaullist Frenchmen. Among them: Pierre Lagaillarde and his crony, Café Owner Joseph Ortiz, who has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the barricades revolt, as well as a handful of ex-colonels involved in the generals' Putsch...