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...answer at an Algiers "press conference" with 250 visiting Communist journalists: "The agreements of Evian are not the Koran for us. It will be necessary to revise and readjust them in regard to our socialist objectives." Furthermore, he warned, if France sets off any new nuclear explosions in its Algerian Sahara testing grounds, there will be "an acceleration of our socialism...
...language newspaper, ordered the 200 employees out within ten minutes. Simultaneously, out in the provinces police swooped on L'Echo d'Oran and La Dépêche de Constantine. Thus last week, only days after formalizing his one-man, one-party rule (TIME, Sept. 20), Algerian Strongman Ahmed ben Bella seized his country's last three remaining French-owned newspapers. To Ben Bella they were dangerous relics of colonialism and tantalizing propaganda tools. Said he: "It is not enough to inform the masses. They must be politicized...
...Paris the De Gaulle government denounced the seizures as violations of French-Algerian accords, under which nationalization of French property is permitted only if Algeria gives notice and arranges to pay fair compensation. But it will apparently not be the last move against France's dwindling stake in Algeria. In a nationwide speech, Ben Bella announced that all additional French-owned property would be nationalized. His regime has already handed over to peasants some hundreds of thousands of acres expropriated from Frenchmen who have left the country, and it is spending $40 million in French aid to compensate them...
Bolstered by a rubber-stamp election ratifying his unopposed candidacy for a five-year term as President, the Algerian leader also appointed a new, 15-member Cabinet of "qualified militants." Most of the ministers are distinguished by their loyalty to Ben Bella; five represent the army, which is run by shadowy No. 2 man Colonel Houari Boumedienne. At week's end Ben Bella prepared to journey to the U.S., where he plans to address the U.N. and, he hopes, make an aid-seeking side visit to President Kennedy...
Only a Flag. Actually, it all only sealed what had been fact for a year: the emergence of Ben Bella, the 43-year-old son of a peasant, as strongman of the Algerian revolution. Since independence in 1962, Ben Bella has elbowed out virtually all his fellow "historic chiefs" of the long guerrilla war against France. Earlier this year his staff, with help from Yugoslavian* and French advisers, drew up Algeria's first constitution. Approved by the Ben Bella-controlled Assembly last month, the country's Magna Carta pronounced the Ben Bella-controlled Front to be the nation...