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...opposing Moslem F.L.N. factions opened up on each other with everything but bullets. While moderate Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda tried to spread his influence from Algiers to the southeast, his bitter rival, radical Vice Premier ben Bella, entered western Algeria for a triumphal march to Oran. After a brief stop at Marnia, his birthplace near the Moroccan border, Ben Bella and his ever-lengthening motorcade drove on to the city of Tlemcen (pop. 80,000). Thousands of veiled women and turbaned men lined the streets, while hundreds of pigtailed little girls in the national colors-white dresses, red sashes, green kerchiefs...
Delayed March. In his speech, Ben Bella again publicly affirmed his acceptance of the Evian agreements between France and the F.L.N. Provisional Government, but denounced Premier Benkhedda and his Cabinet as trying "to delay the forward march of our revolution...
...turn, he denied Benkhedda's charge that he and his friends hoped "to establish a fascist military dictatorship." All he wanted, protested Ben Bella, was a "socialist regime that takes into account the economic needs and fundamental aspirations of the people...
...later talk with newsmen, Ben Bella was more explicit. He said flatly that his meeting with two envoys from Premier Benkhedda had come to nothing, and hinted that many of Benkhedda's backers were at the point of switching sides. Ben Bella stated that he is willing to call off the quarrel if Benkhedda will 1) reinstate the three members of the F.L.N. army general staff he fired last month; 2) convoke the 75-man National Council of the Algerian Revolution, in which Ben Bella claims a majority; and 3) free "my friends from jail...
...case to the people, traveling from Algiers into the mountains of Kazylia, where 100,000 cheering Berbers welcomed him at Tizi-Ouzou. He told his audience that national unity was essential "if the goals of our revolution are to be achieved." At the same time, in Oran, Ben Bella spoke with growing confidence and toughness...