Word: raoul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Peace. Both sides had withdrawn from previously "final" positions -partly in fear of General Raoul Salan's fanatical Secret Army Organization and its indiscriminate terror. Specifically, the French agreed to recognize the F.L.N. as 1) speaking for Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems; 2) having sovereign power over all Algeria, even the oil-rich Sahara; 3) an honorable foe whose 5,000 captured troops will be treated as prisoners of war, not criminals...
Upside Down. In Algeria, an S.A.O. detachment took over the newspaper office of L'Echo d'Oran, put out 20,000 copies of an edition with a huge picture of the S.A.O. chief, ex-General Raoul Salan, and a fiery S.A.O. communiqué, which in their haste they printed upside down. S.A.O. gunmen murdered Commandant Andre Boulle, chief of gendarmerie at Sidi-bel-Abbas, just as he was about to take a plane to Paris to be commended for exceptional service. As the steamer Ville de Bordeaux was about to cast off from Bone harbor bound for France...
...object of these killers-whether they support ex-General Raoul Salan's Secret Army Organization or the Moslem F.L.N.-is indiscriminate death: the machine gun fired from the speeding car can not be accurately aimed; the hand grenade lobbed into a crowded restaurant maims anyone within reach of its steel splinters; the bomb exploded in street or tenement kills whoever happens to be near by. One of the few men in Algeria to protest against the murderous nightmare is Leon Duval, 58, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Algiers. ''To repay evil with evil," he warned his fellow Europeans...
...clock to 7, rushed police and troop reinforcements to Algiers. French police claimed to have arrested 106 European "extremists," including five "killers." A police raid on a villa in an Algiers suburb uncovered the secret headquarters of Jean-Jacques Susini, 28, propaganda chief of ex-General Raoul Salan's Secret Army Organization. Susini escaped, but police seized 20,000 copies of clandestine S.A.O. newspapers and incriminating lists of names, including those of 50 S.A.O. agents in France...
Bloodless Collapse. At 1:30 a.m. on the morning of April 23, a plane touched down at Maison Blanche airport outside Algiers, and out stepped Raoul Salan. The city was already in the hands of Salan's fellow plotters: Generals Maurice Challe (who had succeeded Salan in Algeria), Andre Zeller and Edmond Jouhaud. Rushing to his villa in Hydra, Salan kissed his wife, put on his uniform and all 36 of his decorations, and hurried to Challe's headquarters on the Forum...