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DATE: TUESDAY, September 5, 1995                   TAG: 9509050099
SECTION: NATL/INTL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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IN THE WORLD

PARIS - Gen. Edmond Jouhaud, who led a military rebellion in 1961 to keep Algeria in French hands in defiance of President Charles de Gaulle, died Monday. He was 90.

De Gaulle denounced the four as a ``group of partisan, ambitious and fanatical officers.'' Jouhaud was sentenced to death for organizing the putsch, but later was pardoned.

The generals launched their uprising April 22, 1961, on the eve of talks to end a seven-year independence war that killed as many as 1 million people. The putsch lasted barely four days and Algeria declared independence July 3, 1962.

- Associated Press