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Serene Salaud. On De Gaulle's arrival in Algeria, rioters surged through Algiers and Oran, but were easily contained by helmeted police using tear-gas bombs and "defensive" grenades, which explode with a loud noise but do little damage. Some diehards built a barricade in Algiers' Rue Michelet. This time the army did not stand idly by-two tanks clanked forward and shattered the feeble rampart of bed springs, paving stones and garbage cans...
Fire Me. But Gaullist ideologists in Debre's Cabinet-led by Minister of Industry Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and Justice Minister Edmond Michelet-had other ideas. To keep the French economy growing, they argued, the government must exercise more active control of business. They wanted to: ¶ Establish a government corporation, similar to Italy's state petroleum monopoly, to refine and market Sahara oil; ¶Adopt West Germany's"co-management" scheme-which would give France's heavily Communist unions seats on the board of directors of every important French company; ¶ Set up a government bank...
Although the government said it had seized La Gangrène "to stress the infamous and lying nature of this libelous publication," inside the Cabinet angry protests against its seizure were made by André Malraux and Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet, a liberal Catholic who was once an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp...
...severe problem posed by La Gangrène is that, although De Gaulle has succeeded in curbing army excesses in Algeria, French police methods at home in Metropolitan France are still a law unto themselves. In L'Express, Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac wrote: "De Gaulle, Debré, Michelet are horrified by the idea of torture, as were the Socialists, Radicals and M.R.P.s of the Fourth Republic. But governments pass. The police remain, and governments all have this in common: they cannot do without the police and are scared of displeasing them...
Last week Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet tried to quiet the outcry. "We had an ancient judicial system," he said soothingly. "It has been replaced by a system more modern and liberal." The French press was not so sure...