Word: massue
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Looking around for a tough uncommitted officer to handle the strike and its expected wave of assassinations and counter-bombings, Lacoste chose tall, hawk-nosed Brigadier General Jacques Massu, commander of the 10th Parachute Division. Massu moved in a rock-hard force of 20,000 green- and red-bereted paratroopers, legionnaires and spahis to take over the city of Algiers and its teeming Casbah. Troops stood outside stores and restaurants frisking every passerby, man and woman. All parcels were opened to prevent bombs from being planted in public places by anybody, European or Moslem. At least two soldiers rode every...
...Algeria, however, was already pretty thoroughly bathed in blood -18,000 Algerians and more than 3,000 Frenchmen have been killed this year. Last week French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste concentrated both civil and military police powers in the Algiers area in the tough hands of Brigadier General Jacques Massu, who commanded French paratroops in the Suez invasion. "The battle for Algeria," proclaimed Lacoste, "has reached its final phase...