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...Caroline Kennedy and her kindergarten classmates have been declared personae non gratae during future official White House welcoming ceremonies. Reason: last week, when the President greeted visiting Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella on the White House south lawn with a solemn military review and a 21-gun salute, Caroline and her playmates watched from a third-floor window, began mimicking the military commands with cries of "Attention!" "Shoulder arms!" and "Boom! Boom...
...three hours at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, looking youthful and a little bewildered under glaring lights, stood Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella, 42, shaking hands with 1,500 guests. The reception marking Algeria's admission to the U.N. was a kind of diplomatic coming-out party for the man who had won control of his embattled country, and the U.S. last week got a chance to take a closer look at the man under the lights...
...presumptuous, I hope to contribute something to the lessening of tension between the United States and Cuba." But Ben Bella's Foreign Minister later declared that any attempt to overthrow the regime "chosen" by the Cuban people would be a "threat to peace." In part, the Algerians insisted, their position is based on the fact that during the struggle with France, the U.S. supplied the French army with bombers, guns and ammunition used against the Algerian rebels, while Castro's Cuba gave hospital care to hundreds of Algerian wounded...
This week Ben Bella boarded President Kennedy's plane for the flight to Washington and lunch at the White House. "My first thought in seeing Mr. Kennedy," he said, "is to thank him for his courageous stand as Senator when he called for Algerian independence back in 1957." Denning his own nonaligned position, Ben Bella said it is based on "the principles of anti-imperialism" and "opposes military alliances. It supports general disarmament and peaceful coexistence...
Despite the show of democracy, the voters were apathetic, sickened by war and the clawing fights among their own leaders. By last week, the only slogan capable of rallying the Algerian people was the cry of Baraket (Enough). Ahmed Ben Bella, at least temporarily in control as head of Algeria's Political Bureau, gave the voters no alternative to a single list of 196 candidates. The list had been purged of 59 names, including such Ben Bella opponents as ex-Premier Benyoussef Ben-khedda, Guerrilla Heroine Djamila Bou-hired, who had been tortured by French paratroops, and Mustapha Lacheraf...