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- Aug. 20, 1990: Died:Jacques Soustelle
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 64
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- <p> DIED. Jacques Soustelle, 78, World War II Free French
- patriot and leader in the underground movement against Algerian
- independence from France; in the Paris suburb of
- Neuilly-sur-Seine. During World War II, General Charles de
- Gaulle named Soustelle, a multilingual anthropologist, chief
- of the Free French intelligence service in the fight to
- liberate France from Nazi occupation. In the late 1950s, while
- serving as Governor-General in Algeria and Minister of
- Information under De Gaulle, Soustelle became a champion of
- French sovereignty over Algeria. He quit his government posts
- in 1959, allegedly to help direct a clandestine organization,
- the Secret Army, in two aborted coups against the De Gaulle
- government because of its move toward Algerian independence.
- Three years later, after being charged with "attempts against
- the state," Soustelle fled France. He spent six years in exile,
- mostly in Switzerland, before returning home following a
- general amnesty for those involved in the Algerian dispute.
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