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...opposed him during Algeria's war of independence, Colonel Mohammed Chaabani was "the seigneur of the sands." A tough, canny guerrilla leader, he dominated a sere swatch of the Sahara and the rugged Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria. After independence, Chaabani joined Premier Ahmed ben Bella's Politburo and the army's general staff, but quickly grew restive under Ben Bella's heavy-handed Marxist dictatorship. Last June that uneasiness boiled over into open rebellion, and Chaabani took to the hills with a hard core of his veteran troops...
Equipped with armored cars, tanks and artillery, Chaabani's force posed a serious threat to Ben Bella, who at the same time faced growing opposition within his party and another rebellion in the Great Kabylia range east of Algiers. But treachery finally saved the day. Informers led government troops to an oasis where Chaabani was resting, forced him to surrender without firing a shot...
...revolution continued to consume its children-and its fathers. Ferhat Abbas, head of the Algerian government-in-exile for years and first President of independent Algeria's Parliament, disappeared from his home near Algiers. As the leading moderate opponent of the socialist regime of President Ahmed ben Bella, Abbas had been under house arrest for eight weeks. But last week his plainclothes guards were gone, and relatives said that the grand old man of Algerian nationalism and his 17-year-old adopted son Hakim had been taken away by police toward "an unknown destination and for an unknown period...
...such a bella figura or prove himself such a furbo (big shot) behind the wheel as the Italian. He passes on the right, double passes on the left, triple parks, turns left from the right-hand lane, lunges at pedestrians, ogles the girls, looks at his handsome self in the mirror, waves his arms wildly and shrieks "criminali" and "bastardi" at other drivers. He plays Roman roulette, which means hurtling into an intersection without looking to left or right. The one thing he likes better than passing a whole row of cars is passing the car that is passing them...
...raising armies," Tsiranana warned, "for they can overthrow us. Beware of visiting African delegations that come to enjoy your hospitality and praise you to your face, but stir up insurrection behind your back." To the nervous titters of such practitioners of insurrection as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, he took a cut at that African holy of holies, nonalignment. "We all say we are neutral, but we all favor anybody who helps us," Tsiranana said. "If you ask me the truth, I'll say mais oui, I am allied." Then...