Word: bella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imperial ist Sabotage." Many nations seesawed while Russia and China pondered whether or not to recognize the new regime. Moscow was embarrassed because Ben Bella had been decked out with a Lenin Peace Prize. It hardly seemed decorous to embrace the new man too hastily, so Russia did nothing. China, desperately wanting the conference as a sounding board for anti-U.S. and anti-Russian blasts, ran the risk of alienating Algerian leftists and recognized the new government. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, while carefully pointing out that recognition was between states, not personalities, still withheld his blessing from...
What soon became clear, though, was that Boumedienne and fellow conspirators did not depose President Ahmed ben Bella on ideological policy grounds, but to save their own jobs...
Though he could never have come to power without Boumedienne's unwavering support, Ben Bella in recent months had decided to get rid of the army men in his Cabinet. One reason may have been Ben Bella's anger at the army's point-blank refusal to send "liberation" troops to the Congo, Portuguese Guinea and Israel-as proposed by the President. In any event, the first officer to be ousted, he decided, would be Foreign Minister Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, a former F.L.N. commissar under Boumedienne and a close friend of the army commander. Then, after...
Capture at 3 a.m. The President's big mistake was to confide his plans to Colonel Tahar Zbiri, a protégé of Ben Bella and-he thought-a personal foe of Boumedienne. Still aggrieved by a public bawling out by Ben Bella, Zbiri exposed the plot to Boumedienne, who then directed Zbiri, Minister of Economics Bachir Boumaza and Major Draia, commander of the national security units charged with protecting the President, to arrest Ben Bella. Though they captured him at 3 in the morning, Boumedienne's men took no chances of a rescue by Ben Bella...
...Bella still alive? Nasser's chief aide, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, flew from Cairo to ask Boumedienne if he could see his old pal and "be assured of his safety." "Believe me," replied Boumedienne, "we would grant this request if Ben Bella were not in a place far from Algiers. But we guarantee his safety." When Amer then suggested that Ben Bella be exiled to Egypt, promising that he would not be allowed to plot a comeback, Boumedienne refused...