Word: massu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the rebels and secretly reconstituting the banned Communist Party. Prominent among them: Journalist Henri Alleg, 39, author of the international bestseller, The Question (TIME, June 9, 1958), a surreptitiously written and smuggled-out account of the tortures that he suffered at the hands of paratroops of General Jacques Massu's 20th Division. Conspicuously missing was an eleventh defendant: Communist Maurice Audin, a mathematics professor in whose home Alleg was captured in 1957. French authorities say he escaped. Audin's wife has filed charges that he was strangled during an interrogation by a French paratroop lieutenant...
...Jacques Massu. 55. He said: "I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years." a) Errol Flynn...
...report from Algiers, TIME'S Paris Bureau Chief Frank White interrupted himself to announce that gunfire had broken out near by and that he was off to investigate. For White, who foresightedly flew into Algiers as soon as he heard of the sacking of Paratrooper Jacques Massu, the next few days were full of minor irritations, major risks...
These three men had set in train the circumstances they now uncertainly faced. It was Lagaillarde who persuaded the other two to "direct action" to protest De Gaulle's removal of Paratrooper General Jacques Massu (TIME, Feb. 1). Once, as they sat in the cafe plotting, he turned on Ortiz, pulled his pistol, and barked at the older man: "I should drop you right now, with this!" After the bloody Jan. 24 fight with the gendarmes (19 dead, 146 wounded), it was Lagaillarde who ordered up the barricades and dug the first shovelful of dirt...
...display of weakness which encouraged the rebels to believe they could win independence by violence. But without the support of the army, the settlers could not hope to resist De Gaulle successfully. And though increasing numbers of junior officers outspokenly echoed the settlers' complaints, Old Gaullist Massu had long made it clear that, while he might grumble, he would never revolt against De Gaulle. In Paris late last week, reflecting on the circumstances of the Kempski interview, Massu-a brave soldier, but not a brilliant man-concluded that he had fallen into a trap somehow baited...