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...range into his personal fief. His men-historically mutinous Chaouia tribesmen whose ancestors had rebelled against Romans, Byzantines and Arabs alike-are equipped with armored cars, tanks and artillery, thus representing a more serious military threat to Ben Bella than the 2,000 Berber rebels under Hocine Ait Ahmed's command in the Great Kabylia range to the northwest...
...Criminal Adventure." "The regime is now moving irresistibly down the dangerous path toward fascism and totalitarian rule," he said. "Such a regime must be abolished." Khider sided openly with the armed rebellions of Ait Ahmed and Chaabani...
...chief rebel is Hocine Aft Ahmed, 38, who took to the hills in 1963 and is still holed up with his guerrillas near Michelet. Ait Ahmed patriotically called off his war last October, when border fighting broke out between Algeria and Morocco. But now that there is peace, Ait Ahmed has returned to the attack, with guns, bombs and pamphlets urging Ben Bella's soldiers to desert...
...constitution to a national referendum, announced a landslide (98%) majority for approval. But in the Kabylia mountains east of Algiers, fiercely independent Berbers staged a surprisingly effective boycott. Disappointed because Ben Bella has done little for their war-shattered region, and egged on by Marxist sympathizing Deputy Hussein Ait-Ahmed, who recently broke with Ben Bella, more than 50% of the half-million Kabylia voters stayed away from the polls. Said one Berber ex-guerrilla: "Independence? All we have got from it is the national flag...
...Moroccan border, that he had formed a seven-man politburo that would oust the "usurpers" of the provisional government (G.P.R.A.) from power and run the country until the formation of a constituent assembly. Premier Benkhedda was specifically excluded from the politburo, and only two members of his government (Ait Akhmed and Mohammed Boudiaf) were in; the rest were all Ben Bella men. Meanwhile, the military forces loyal to Ben Bella solidified control in the wilayas (zones) of both western and eastern Algeria...