Word: benkhedda
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...Bella ran a one-man show for nearly three years and ran it badly, but always with the strong support of Boumedienne and his 60,000-man army. It was Boumedienne who routed the guerrillas who seized Algiers to protest Ben Bella's overthrow of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. It was Boumedienne who crushed Colonel Mohammed Chaabani's desert insurrection and executed its leader. It was Boumedienne who managed the capture of Berber Rebel Leader Hocine Ait Ahmed. When the Berbers of Kabylia revolted in 1963, Boumedienne's troops took heavy losses in quelling the uprising...
...National Liberation Front, which he once headed. But he was permitted to retire quietly to his villa in Kouba, outside Algiers, thereby joining the ranks of Ben Bella's other muffled but unharmed opponents, such as Mohammed Boudiaf, who is under house arrest, and ex-Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, who has quit politics to resume his career as a druggist...
...last week all of Algeria's wrangling leaders seemed chillingly aware of the nation's disgust. Ex-Premier Benkhedda, despite his enmity toward Ben Bella, pointed the way to unity by going out and voting. And fiery army commander Colonel Houari Boumedienne kept himself and his Communist-equipped troops relatively out of sight. Only when the vote was in did Boumedienne announce a drive to crush antigovernment resistance in the region around Algiers...
What is abundantly clear is that few, if any, Algerian leaders would now attempt to clip Boumedienne's wings, as Benkhedda tried to do. Ben Bella, whom the colonel has known and supported since 1952, has more reason to fear that his government will not be able to rebuild Algeria's shattered economy or redistribute its land fast enough to please his impatient chief of staff. In that case, the next time Boumedienne marches, it will probably be to rivet army rule on Algeria. Boumedienne has often remarked that "the army is the spearhead of the revolution...
...tough Belkacem Krim, finally saw the futility of their fight, agreed to negotiations with Ben Bella's top aide. Mohammed Khider. Boudiaf and Krim capitulated without even a face-saving compromise. They accepted intact Ben Bella's seven-man politburo, which included Boudiaf but excluded Krim. Premier Benkhedda passed all policymaking power over to the politburo, will remain on as figurehead chief of government until elections to the new Constituent Assembly on Aug. 27. He won only a promise "in principle" from Ben Bella that the Constituent Assembly would be allowed to "reexamine" the membership of the politburo...