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...Algeria, the revolution continued to consume its children-and its fathers. Ferhat Abbas, head of the Algerian government-in-exile for years and first President of independent Algeria's Parliament, disappeared from his home near Algiers. As the leading moderate opponent of the socialist regime of President Ahmed ben Bella, Abbas had been under house arrest for eight weeks. But last week his plainclothes guards were gone, and relatives said that the grand old man of Algerian nationalism and his 17-year-old adopted son Hakim had been taken away by police toward "an unknown destination...
...O.A.U.'s "liberation committee"-a nine-man group that coordinates and finances the activities of some 16 separate "freedom fighter" organizations aimed at freeing the African nations still controlled by white minorities. Blasting the committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses, but not enough to make them abandon apartheid and white supremacy...
...member states show per capita incomes as low as $17 a year, giving the group as a whole less purchasing power than New York State. Yet for all its obstacles, the O.A.U. in its short lifetime has a number of successes to its credit. It skill fully mediated the Algerian-Moroccan border war and cooled down the fighting between Ethiopia and Somalia on Africa's hot, dry eastern horn. Somalia likewise stopped its border skirmishing with Kenya-officially at least-and is now negotiating both disputes under O.A.U. auspices...
...Historic Chief." The man on the mountain was Colonel Mohammed Chaabani, 32, onetime member of Ben Bella's ruling Politburo and the Algerian army's general staff. A tough, capable guerrilla leader during Algeria's 71-year war with France, Chaabani had turned the Aures and part of the Sahara south of the 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...
Khider, one of the nine "historic chiefs" of the National Liberation Front, had shared a prison cell with Ben Bella during the dark days of the Algerian revolution, and lent his considerable political skills to Ben Bella in his rise to power in the F.L.N. Breaking with Ben Bella at the cataclysmic party congress of April 1963, Khider went into intermittent exile, but until this week was reluctant to endorse armed rebellion against the regime. At a Paris press conference held in an abandoned class room on the Rue de Babylone, Khider broke once and for all with Ben Bella...