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...TIME, Feb. 8 et seg.), De Gaulle has systematically "purged" the French army in Algeria by retiring or transferring senior officers who sought to sabotage his policy of self-determination for Algeria. To tighten his hold on the army still further, De Gaulle last week prolonged for nine months Gaullist General Paul Ely's tenure as chief of France's joint chiefs of staff, and named as army chief of staff Gaullist General Louis Le Puloch -of whom one French officer nervously remarked: "When it comes to discipline, Napoleon was a softie compared to Le Puloch...
...general councils," which will advise prefects and supervise local administration in Algeria's 13 departments. Candidates pledged to De Gaulle's policy of self-determination for Algeria won 298 of the 452 seats. Candidates running on purely local issues won 67 and diehard anti-Gaullist French settlers another 87. One ultra winner: pretty Babette Lagaillarde, 26, wife of imprisoned ex-Paratrooper Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the extremist settlers of Algiers in their insurrection against De Gaulle last January...
Biggest disappointment of the election from the Gaullist point of view was the fact that only 55% of the electorate voted. One faction among the French settlers, smarting from what a De Gaulle adviser calls a post-insurrection "realization that they are no longer masters of their fate," boycotted the polls, cutting the turnout in the cities. The rebel F.L.N. also called for abstention; 70% of the Moslem population stayed away in Algiers' casbah, and 86% in Sétif, home town of F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat Abbas...
...houses dark and locked. By day, the Capitol's 80,000 people went about their business nervously. The secret police, guided by Communist instructors imported from Czechoslovakia, were equipped with concealed Czech-made wire recorders, listening for the chance remark that would betray a "Gaullist enemy of the state...
Even within the Gaullist U.N.R.-the political mainstay of Premier Michel Debré's Cabinet-there is dissension. Many U.N.R. wheelhorses openly sympathize with tough Jacques Soustelle-the man whom De Gaulle fired as Minister of the Sahara for showing undue sympathy toward the European insurgents of Algiers last January. Soustelle recently organized an "Information Center on the Problems of Algeria and the Sahara," makes no bones of his intention of offering "intellectual support" to Algeria's De Gaulle-hating settlers and their friends in the French army...