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DIED. GENERAL EDMOND JOUHAUD, 90, the last survivor of the four French generals who staged the failed 1961 putsch in Algiers to overthrow President Charles de Gaulle and keep Algeria in French hands; in Royan, France. Jouhaud was condemned to death, but De Gaulle commuted his sentence to life in prison and then released...
Occasional Disagreement. Despite his complete loyalty to De Gaulle, he has been known to disagree and to argue, at least once threatened his resignation when the boss wanted to execute General Edmond Jouhaud, a respected old soldier implicated in the S.A.O. conspiracy over Algeria. Lately, Pompidou has made strong efforts to show that he is more than De Gaulle's tool, and did so again in the Assembly last week. Staking out his claim to a role as policymaker alongside De Gaulle, he reminded critics that all presidential acts require his signature too, and implied that he does...
...overwhelmingly won two national referendums on his Algeria policy, the rightists filed a motion of censure against the government, but were sharply defeated. Even as angry debate on the motion rang from the Assembly floor, news tickers clacked out word of an extraordinary move by ex-General Edmond Jouhaud, who was condemned to death last month by the same military tribunal that later spared the life of his S.A.O. boss, Raoul Salan...
Dying Core. What had probably influenced the nine judges more than any possible deals, more than courtroom melodrama, was the desire not to create a martyr and to keep the French right from being totally alienated. Since the April trial of ex-General Jouhaud, condemned to death by the same tribunal, the atmosphere has changed. Earlier, there seemed strong possibility that Moslems and Europeans might eventually live together in peace in Algeria, and the S.A.O.'s terror seemed all the worse against the backdrop of this hope. By the time Salan went on trial, the situation had deteriorated...
...Salan verdict inspired the attorneys of his condemned deputy, ex-General Jouhaud, to appeal for a new trial. While the French Supreme Court took the matter under advisement, Jouhaud was granted a stay of execution. But there were suggestions that the angry De Gaulle might still insist on his death. The government promptly began using Jouhaud's fate as a political weapon to try to subdue the S.A.O. His life, French authorities hinted broadly, depended on the S.A.O. terrorists' immediately easing up on their attacks against Moslems in Algeria. At week's end, the S.A.O. seemed...