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Once the top cop had been a loyal F.L.N. fighter for Algeria's freedom. Now he was just another enemy of Premier Ahmed ben Bella-a member of the underground Party of the Socialist Revolution, which today accuses Ben Bella of "neocolonialism, personal dictatorship and sabotage of the revolution." Caught with Harraig in the roundup were about 40 fellow ringleaders in the underground party. Government agents also had their eyes on Algiers' Communists, whose organization now was outlawed. Ben Bella hastened to add that he had not banned the Communist Party-or any other group-for ideology alone...
...Premier Ahmed ben Bella, who clawed his way to power two months ago, his mystique has been badly tarnished by intraparty squabbles and by his international status seeking in Havana and points East. Ben Bella's latest excuse for his recent visit to Castro: "I would have failed in my duty if I had not gone to Cuba to learn about its experiences and avoid in my country the errors that have been made there...
Anti-Neocolonialism. There are plenty of errors to avoid. Ben Bella is finally tackling the problem of land reform, which he himself has often vowed is Algeria's most urgent goal. On a three-day tour of the barren, war-ravaged bled, he pledged redistribution of 3,750,000 acres of farm land that has been abandoned by departing Europeans. But the government so far has developed no agricultural policy or even devised a program for compensating European landowners. Around Setif, the peasants have simply appropriated many deserted farms; in other areas, local committees have taken them over. Rather...
...alive by France, which is pumping $2,000,000 a day into its former colony. While French aid is to be drastically reduced after Jan. 1, France will continue to be Algeria's biggest market and capital source. Thus, what chiefly worries Western diplomats in Algiers is Ben Bella's contemptuous disregard for the Evian agreements that set the terms for France's withdrawal from Algeria. The Premier, who was still a prisoner of the French when the accord was drawn up, says vaguely that it needs to be revised, but simply ignores any of its provisions...
...quarters of the daily diet for 3,000,000 Algerians. As in other new African countries, the people are also discovering that Communist-bloc aid is mostly window dressing; since Khrushchev's hasty retreat from Cuba, they have become even more leary of Soviet attempts to make Ben Bella the Castro of Africa. Whatever the subject under discussion, Algerians often ask: "What is reality?" A government official in Algiers asked the question last week, but did not answer. Instead, he pointed at a map of France...