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...predawn darkness last Saturday morning, truckloads of Algerian troops pulled up before President Ahmed ben Bella's white-walled hillside Villa Joly, overlooking the Mediterranean. The soldiers quickly pushed aside police bodyguards, hurried through the garden to the glass-paneled front door. There was a rough exchange in guttural Arabic, the sound of breaking glass, and a light snapped on in the President's upstairs bedroom. Ben Bella woke up to discover he was deposed and under arrest...
...Algerian government has accused the Swiss bankers of harboring $12 million that a rebel sequestered from Premier ben Bella's treasury. Last week, in a far more serious affair, Switzerland was shaken by one of the worst scandals in the annals of Swiss banking. 'The government suspended from office the man most directly re sponsible for policing the country's banking integrity: Max Hommel, presi dent of the Swiss Banking Commission...
They don't. For nearly two years their troops have been skirmishing intermittently for a 500-mile strip of land which was once considered Moroccan, but was handed over to Algeria by the French when they controlled the area. In addition, militant Socialist Ben Bella regards Hassan as a feudal tyrant and has been training guerrillas and encouraging rebellion against...
...time being, however, the King and the Socialist need each other. To head off a threatened boycott of moderate leaders that could ruin next month's Afro-Asian Summit Conference in Algiers, Ben Bella badly needs to change his image as an agent of subversion and revolution. How better to do so than by appearing friendly to his good neighbor Hassan, who is influential among the moderates of both...
Africa and the Arab world? The King, for his part, has become increasingly concerned over demonstrations and student riots at home. How better to win leftist hearts than by swearing eternal friendship to Ben Bella...