FRANCE FINIS FOR S.A.O . ? AS SWISSAIR FLIGHT 227 TO ZURICH 
TAXIED ONTO THE RUNWAY AT MUNICH LAST WEEK, IT WAS FOLLOWED 
CLOSELY BY A BLACK POLICE LIMOUSINE . NOT UNTIL THE RED-AND-SILVER 
CONVAIR DISAPPEARED INTO THE NIGHT DID THE PLAINCLOTHESMAN INSIDE THE CAR 
RETURN TO HEADQUARTERS TO REPORT THAT GEORGES BIDAULT, 63, FORMER PREMIER 
OF FRANCE AND NOW SELF-STYLED OPERATIONAL CHIEF OF THE TERRORIST SECRET 
ARMY ORGANIZATION, HAD LEFT WEST GERMANY . FOR THE FIRST TIME 
SINCE BIDAULT WAS TRACED TO HIS HIDEAWAY IN A RURAL VILLA 
LAST MONTH, BAVARIA'S MINISTER OF INTERIOR HEINRICH JUNKER BREATHED EASILY . 
SIGHED HE : " A HEAVY CROSS IS OFF MY BACK 
. " BIDAULT DID NOT LEAVE MUNICH WITHOUT A VOW TO 
" CONTINUE MY FIGHT AGAINST DE GAULLE UNTIL FREEDOM HAS BEEN 
RESTORED IN MY COUNTRY . " LANDING IN PORTUGAL UNDER AN 
ASSUMED NAME, HE WAS GIVEN EVEN LESS CHANCE TO PLOT AGAINST 
DE GAULLE'S LIFE THAN HE ENJOYED IN EASYGOING BAVARIA ; ALMOST 
AS SOON AS HE TURNED UP AT A LISBON ROOMING HOUSE, 
SECURITY COPS HAULED HIM OFF TO A SUBURBAN LISBON VILLA . 
HE WAS EXPECTED TO SEEK REFUGE IN SOUTH AMERICA . DRIFTING 
AIMLESSLY LIKE A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY, BIDAULT TODAY IS A 
PATHETIC FUGITIVE WHO DRINKS TOO MUCH AND TALKS TOO MUCH TO 
BE AN EFFECTIVE OPPONENT OF THE REGIME . AND FRENCH OFFICIALS 
INSIST THAT THE S.A.O . MOVEMENT, WHOSE MURDEROUS FOLLOWERS ONCE STRUCK 
TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF FRENCHMEN, HAS FALLEN APART SINCE FRANCE'S 
TRUCE WITH ALGERIA IN MARCH 1962 . PLAGUED BY APATHY AND 
HOUNDED BY THE 61,000-MAN POLICE FORCE OF INTERIOR MINISTER ROGER FREY, 
THE S.A.O . IS NO LONGER ABLE TO MAINTAIN COMMANDO UNITS 
IN EACH OF FRANCE'S NINE MILITARY DISTRICTS, AS IT ONCE DID 
. TODAY, TOP OFFICIALS CLAIM, THERE ARE PROBABLY NO MORE THAN 
30 HARDCORE ACTIVISTS LEFT IN THE COUNTRY . WHILE HUNDREDS OF 
FANATIC ANTI-GAULLISTS HAVE FOUND REFUGE IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES (500 IN SPAIN 
ALONE), THEY TOO ARE NOW ALMOST ALL UNDER CLOSE POLICE SURVEILLANCE 
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