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...most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of "Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris...
Village Kings. The conference with De Gaulle would probably strengthen Ben Bella against his own opposition at home. He could use some strengthening, for Algeria has been plagued with growing'unrest in recent weeks. Despairing of ever finding local jobs, thousands of Algerians leave each week to work in France. Armed rebel bands roam the Great Kabylia mountains, where trouble usually starts in Algeria, and attacks on police posts and government offices are mounting...
...still holed up with his guerrillas near Michelet. Ait Ahmed patriotically called off his war last October, when border fighting broke out between Algeria and Morocco. But now that there is peace, Ait Ahmed has returned to the attack, with guns, bombs and pamphlets urging Ben Bella's soldiers to desert...
Rebel hopes for a widespread general revolt rest on the peasant masses and the thousands of unemployed workers in the cities. So far, peasant anger has been directed more at the "little village kings" and the overprivileged army than at Ben Bella himself. In the oasis village of Tolga last month, a furious crowd pummeled the mayor and the local F.L.N. political bosses, grabbed three buses and drove to Biskra to protest that the bosses had pocketed government relief funds. From Ouled Djellal and Ourellal come reports that hungry peasants have set fire to party headquarters and even liquidated some...
Loyal Commander. But Ben Bella's hold on the government and the nation really depends on the support of the 50,000-man Algerian army and its ascetic commander, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, who is also Defense Minister and Vice President of Algeria. With a monthly salary of about $50, the average soldier is far better off than the average Algerian citizen, and in every crisis so far, Boumedienne has proved loyal to Ben Bella...