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...hard-bitten French air force intelligence officers in North Africa it was the perfect chance to score a coup that might shorten Algeria's long and bloody war. Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, with the unofficial blessing of Socialist Guy Mollet's government, had invited top Algerian rebel chieftains from their Cairo headquarters to Rabat to talk peace terms with him. Then they would fly to Tunis for discussions with moderate Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba. A daring plan occurred to the officers: Why not kidnap the Algerian rebels' high command in midair...
Late last night French Premier Mollet won a vote of confidence after expressing support for the Israeli attack...
...capture of the Athos came at a propitious moment for Premier Guy Mollet's government, which is facing intense criticism for its policy in Algeria. Claiming that his tough tactics had beaten the rebels and put them on the run, Algerian Minister Robert Lacoste last week told the National Assembly: "Without the aid of arms that they get from across the frontiers of the east and west, or by sea, their situation would be tragic." Lacoste hinted at what the guerrillas may have planned to do with the Athos arms: "The rebels would be happy if they could seize...
...nuclear strength over manpower, began to insist that Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. and must unite to save her own skin (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week, still beating the unity drum, Adenauer made a concrete proposal which he said had the concurrence of French Premier Guy Mollet. The proposal: a general scheme to convert the now-toothless Western European Union into an organization empowered to coordinate the foreign and military policies of member nations...
...permission from the Western European Union to arm the Bundeswehr with tactical atomic weapons. A few days later, during a twelve-hour session to settle the terms for the return of the rich Saarland to West Germany next year, Adenauer broached his atomic-weapons scheme to French Premier Guy Mollet. Mollet. obviously forewarned. sidestepped. But the question was still there to be answered: Shall renascent West Germany be allowed to have nuclear arms? Spaak politely refused...