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...unsuccessful with the rebels, De Gaulle at least was able to prevail over his own troublesome generals last week. Sad-eyed General Raoul Salan, No. 1 soldier in Algeria during last summer's settlers' revolt, was made military governor of Paris. Impetuous paratroop Major General Jacques Massu was assigned to a field command entirely divorced from politics...
...Armor. The time had come to stand up and be counted. Paratroop General Jacques Massu, the figurehead co-president of the Algiers Public Safety Committee, promptly if grumpily strode into a committee meeting, accompanied by subordinates in white uniforms, to announce: "Gentlemen, in execution of the order of the chief of government, we quit." Undeterred, the civilian members of the committee called for a general strike against De Gaulle's directive...
...TIME. April 28). So notable is Colonel Bigeard's tactical genius and so successful his Spartan training methods that for three years, whenever French troops scored one of their rare clearcut victories over the Algerian rebels, French newspaper readers automatically looked for the name of his 3rd Colonial Paratroop Regiment. Last week, to their confusion, Frenchmen learned that there was no longer any place in Algeria for Marcel Bigeard...
Noncom's War. Last April, Bigeard's enemies succeeded in getting him assigned to command a special school designed to train junior officers in "revolutionary warfare." Unlike many other paratroop officers, he stood aloof from the army coup of last May, earned the further dislike of the balcony generals and colonels of Algiers by scornfully condemning their coup ("The army, instead of waging war, is indulging in politics"). And early this month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French...
...possibility of a paratroop coup still haunts French politics. Said Consultative Committee Chairman, famed old Parliamentarian Paul Reynaud, 79, expressing the hope that the suggestions of his committee would help to get the new constitution passed, "for we know that its failure would reopen the crisis of May while depriving us of the only man who can resolve...