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Being the granddaughter of Richard King, she also left behind upwards of $10 million-all of it bequeathed to "my dearly beloved friend," a 35-year-old patrolman named Michael De Bella. The policeman has never explained how he met Miss Atwood, but a grandmotherly affection obviously developed in the heart of the reclusive old lady, so painfully shy that the only known photograph of her was taken when she was a child. Sometimes De Bella invited her to dine with his family; he often spent his lunch hour visiting her lonely hotel apartment...
...soliloquy on the beach, Bloom's trip to Paddy Dignam's funeral, Bloom's brangle with the one-eyed Fenian in Kiernan's pub, Bloom's meeting with Stephen at Buck Mulligan's brawl, the nocturnal visit of Bloom and Stephen to Bella Cohen's brothel, Molly Bloom's magnificent end-spurt of soliloquacity...
...ruling F.L.N. Party opposed too close liaisons with Soviet and Chinese Communists, a stand that, among other reasons, eventually alienated him from his colleagues to the point where he fled the country in 1964 with $14 million in party funds and spent his hours plotting to overthrow first Ben Bella, and then his successor Boumediene; of bullet wounds inflicted by an unknown assassin; in Madrid...
Boumediene is even trying to patch up relations with Egypt's Nasser, who was so miffed by Boumediene's overthrow of President Ahmed ben Bella 18 months ago that he personally quashed a conference of neutral nations sched uled for Algeria. Last month Boumediene made his first state visit to Cairo, and suddenly the two Arab leaders were touring the capital like old friends-all smiles...
...process, Boumediene has built Algeria into the third largest military power in Africa, after Egypt and South Africa. He has also built a menacing opposition. Though he has purged his enemies from the Algerian Labor Federation and sacked rivals on the 24-man Revolutionary Council, many pro-Ben Bella men still surround him in high government posts. Outside the country, powerful exiles like Independence Hero Mohammed Boudiaf are threatening to organize subversion against him. Ben Bella, who could well be the leader of such a revolt, is regularly shifted from prison to prison by special order of his nervous successor...