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Tomatoes Are Cheaper. When he was inaugurated Premier last September, he discovered his principal aim of land reform was already an accomplished fact; Algerian peasants had spontaneously taken over the rich lands vacated by the French settlers. Ben Bella shrewdly legalized what the peasants had improvised. The peasants also showed wis dom: instead of breaking up the estates into uneconomic small plots, they decided to form management committees to run them as they were. Ben Bella, who has an almost mystical love of the peasant masses, is staking his future on this version of the collective farm. Each estate...
Refusing Owners. In the cities, Ben Bella so far has nationalized only a small number of minor industries, says he will not nationalize further "unless we are forced to, that is, unless owners refuse to keep their factories running." Under a law passed last month, Algeria promises that no new foreign enterprise will be nationalized until it has completely amortized its investment, and if taken over, full compensation will be paid the investors. The government has not been swamped by offers from abroad, but a U.S. company has proposed building a fertilizer factory, Renault has already set up an assembly...
Revolutionary Play. Ben Bella has probably jailed fewer people in his first year of power than most Afro-Asian revolutionary leaders. His opposition ranges from National Assembly Speaker Ferhat Abbas, who complains that socialism is coming too swiftly, to Marxist Theoretician Mohammed Boudiaf, who complains that socialism is not coming quickly enough. Boudiaf and three of his supporters have been under house arrest since June, and another opponent, Mohammed Khider, has been exiled. At one time Ben Bella seemed threatened by shadowy, ascetic Colonel Houari Boumedienne; as Defense Minister and army chief, he has so much power that he probably...
...foreign affairs Ben Bella has given up the impractical vision of a united Maghreb (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco). But as head of the only African nation so far to have fought a long, bloody war, if not to victory in the field, at least to independence, he seems to dream of leading all Africa-although there is considerable doubt as to how his near-bankrupt country could afford such a role. Still playing the revolutionary, Ben Bella has set up a training camp for 1,000 Angolan guerrillas who hope to drive the Portuguese colonialists from their homeland...
...African Conference at Addis Ababa last May, Ben Bella remarked: "To free Africa, we must all be prepared to die a little." Ben Bella's people, sick of strife, would first like to live a little...