Word: bella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people in the world," orated Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella to his fanatically cheering audience, "the Algerians are the last ones who will accept dictatorship." Then Ben Bella proceeded to make himself the one-man ruler of a one-party state...
Before 3,500 delegates of his National Liberation Front packed into Algiers' Majestic theater last week, Ben Bella accepted nomination by acclamation for President-a new title which will supersede that of Premier and hand Ben Bella even greater power...
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...
Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella is moving ever closer to complete one-man rule. Last week venerable, ailing ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas, 63, quit his post as Speaker of the Assembly and handed out a 15-page critique of the government. He was chiefly upset because Ben Bella keeps ignoring the Assembly, even read the country's new, strongly centralized constitution to a meeting of his own followers at an Algiers movie theater before submitting it to the Deputies. Asked Abbas: "Why should we agree to a constitution that has been prostituted in a cinema?" Abbas conceded...
Though Ben Bella remarks acidly that "revolutions are not made without prisons," Ben Bellism is not fascism. Critic Abbas was blasted as a "bourgeois spokesman for privilege" by government-run newspapers and drummed out of the National Liberation Front, which he once headed. But he was permitted to retire quietly to his villa in Kouba, outside Algiers, thereby joining the ranks of Ben Bella's other muffled but unharmed opponents, such as Mohammed Boudiaf, who is under house arrest, and ex-Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, who has quit politics to resume his career as a druggist...