Evening star., 1960-02-02
ALGERIA
De GouIIe Government Due to Get
Special Powers to Rule by Decree
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Deputy from Algiers, were
locked up in Sante Prison along
with Lagaillarde.
A French examining magis-
trate. sort of one-man grand
jury. questioned a long list Of
persons suspected of shipping
arms to the French insurgents.
The government bill being
submitted to the Assembly and
the Senate asked for special
powers to govern by decree
until April /, 1851. Parliament,
would be in recess until that
Gate, when it would meet to
ratify or disapprove the cabi-
net DEGREES issued in the in
terim.
Both houses were expected to
grant the cabinets request.
But strong criticism was ex-
pected first from right-wing
extremists.
The call for special powers
came in the wake of the coll
lapse yesterday of the right
wing colonials' revolt against
Gen. de Gaulle'S promise of self
determination for the North
African territory still in the
throeS Of a year's-old revolt by
MoSlem NationaliSts.
Lagaillarde in Prison
Lagaillarde was flown to Paris
last night and clapped into
Sante prison less than IL hours
after he had marched the rem
nantS of his forces out from
behind the barricades in Algiers
and surrendered.
Lagaillarde was told that
;he was being charged with
an attack on the security of
She state. Deputies are i'm
nune from arrest unless caught
committing a crime, and La
galllarde apparently made no
effort to plead immunity.
Another insurgent leader,
Algiers cafe proprietor, Joseph
Ortiz, was a fugitive. appar-
emily somewhere in Algeria. A
warrant was out for his ar
rest.
The diehards who surren-
dered witch Lagaillarde were
given a choice of forming a
unit with the Foreign Legion
to fight the rebels or of going
home with the possibility they
might face trial for subverslon.
Authorities said 420 had agreed
to join the legion.
Parliament to Recess
Gen. de Gaulle could have
asked that special powers be
voted to him personally, but
under the constitution Parlia-
ment then would have re-
manned in session to approve
his DEGREES. With the Debre
cabinet getting the special
powers and Parliament going
into recess, Gen. de Gaulle will
not have to deal with the Ma
tional Assembly and the Senate
while working to prevent a re-
currence of the AlgierS uprising.
The governments request to
rule by decree said Gen. de
Gaulle'S authority and the
unity of the nation around
the chief of state have avoided
a major crisis, the consequences
OF which would have been diff
fcult to calculate"
Risk of Trouble Remains
But because of the general
situation in France" it con-
tinued, "and taking into ac-
count the exceptional character
OF the Algerian problem, the
risk of profound trouble re-
mains hanging over the state"
Therefore, the government
bill continued, the cabinet
should have the power to de-
cree measures necessary for
the. maintenance of order, the
welfare of the state, and the
pacification and administration
of Algeria"
Troops in Algiers, mean
while, moved through the area
around the university and post
office where thousands of in
Surgents barricaded tn e m
selves a week ago Sunday in
defiance Of the Paris govern
ment. Munitions and explo-
siveS stockpiled by the in
surgents were loaded on to
army trucks and driven off,
Streets and buildings in the
area were searched for bombs
and BOBBY traps.
The army started lifting its
Gordon around the center of
Algiers, and civilians we're al
lowed to penetrate the in
surgents' former stronghold,
the area around the university
and the post office.
Stores, restaurants and bars
were open everywhere except
in the newly re-opened central
section. Ortiz bar was still
closed however.
The city was outWardly calm.
Schools were crowded. Local
papers headlined tributes to
insurgents as patriots" but
noted that French unity had
been saved. Lagaillarde's ar
rival at a Paris Jail was COW
cred in a single paragraph.
There were still large blanks
where the censors had been at
work.
Barricades Torn Down
Work gangs were tearing
down the rebels barricades and
repaving the streets from
which the insurgents ripped
paving stones for their barri-
CadeS