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Absolute Unity. The occasion for the unveiling was the official visit of Mohammed ben Bella, 45, the popular F.L.N...
leader freed last month by the French after five years' imprisonment. For Ben Bella it was truly a homecoming, since he had been born of an Algerian father and Moroccan mother within 15 miles of Oudjda. The camp, formerly a French supply depot, was decorated with rebel flags and banners proclaiming in French and Arabic such long-winded slogans as "The triumph of our revolution demands absolute unity, organized action, solid leadership and well-defined aims." On an inspection of border outposts within gunshot of French positions. Ben Bella, though still pale and out of condition from his long...
Speaking publicly for the first time since his release, Ben Bella declared that the cease-fire agreement with France "has not put an end to the revolution." He warned: "We cannot rejoice because our brothers and sisters are still dying. Our day of celebration will come when we return to our native land. This day will be very soon." Added Colonel Boumedienne: "We will have reached our goal when the last enemy has left our soil...
...Morocco, Ben Bella's return meant the end of a humiliating international loss of face as well as "the end of the night mare of an atrocious war." For the F.L.N...
Information Minister M'hammed Yazid hastened to inform newsmen that "we are all very fond of one another and on the best of terms." But Premier Benkhedda, watching a hundred thousand Moroccans lining the seven-mile route to Rabat and screaming "Yaeesh Ben Bella!" (Long live Ben Bella), could well be wondering if the return of an old comrade might not mean the rise of a political rival...