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...minute statement in which he once again traced his military record ("I made the name of France glow at the ends of the earth"). As he saw it, his career in the French army was beset by "treason" and "betrayal" back home; he would have won gloriously in Indo-China and Algeria. He admitted being the leader of the S.A.O. and declared: "My responsibility is entire. I accept it." The S.A.O...
...They know that they must move fast to make up for wasted years. Diem's army, with the concurrence of U.S. military missions, was built up as a conventional force geared to fight off a Korean-type invasion from Communist North Viet Nam. In the bitter Indo-China war, the French army had tried everything in the book, from armored columns to fortified posts to mobile units to recruiting local militia. Diem's Vietnamese army vainly followed suit-placing guard details at bridges and factories, leaving garrisons in loyal villages, building watchtowers along vital roads. U.S. officers tried...
...Where is my wife?" asked S.A.O. Chief Raoul Salan when the Sante Prison gates closed on him in Paris last month. Slight, trim Lucienne Salan had been an army nurse when he met her in Indo-China in 1938, and when in 1944 Salan finally joined the Free French, she became an army driver. La Bibiche (little doe), the soldiers called the frail woman with the thin legs, the long face, the velvet eyes. But she was harder than she looked, and as her husband moved up the army ladder, she supervised his schedule, his appointments, his travel (avoid airplanes...
Captured in the apartment with Salan was his aide, former Captain Jean Ferrandi. who had served under the general in Indo-China, came with him to Algiers for the April putsch. As police bundled them outside, one cop could not help identifying their catch to other residents in the hallway. When the concierge heard that M. Carriere was Raoul Salan, she fainted. Silent and deathly pale, Salan was taken with Ferrandi by helicopter to Reghai'a, French military headquarters 20 miles from town, where the S.A.O. chief huddled bleakly on a bench between two gendarmes. There he was spotted...
...reconnaissance plane spotted an Indo nesian schooner suspiciously close to New Guinea and chased it away with gunfire...