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...more than 350,000 Moslems. It sparked two mutinies in the French army, destroyed the French Fourth Republic, brought to power the Fifth Republic of President Charles de Gaulle, and gravely threatened his regime, too. Last week the war was virtually over. At his headquarters in Tunis, Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda of the Algerian F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) declared: "It is now possible to say that the Algerian revolution has triumphed and has attained the aims for which it fought." Despite these words, there was little sense of triumph beneath the outward forms of jubilation. The big fact...
officials say defiantly: "We demand the right to govern ourselves poorly." Mr. Everybody. For the near future, at least, a vast share of these problems will be the burden of Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda. Many observers feel that Benkhedda may not last as Premier, may be replaced by someone with a greater popular following or a stronger gift for political intrigue. One possible candidate: suave, wily Mohammed ben Bella, the F.L.N. 's "iron man," who is scheduled to be released from five years of French imprisonment at the ceasefire, along with four other F.L.N. leaders. But for a tran sition...
...small, white, two-story house in a quiet residential district of Tunis. An F.L.N. .guard was at the door; inside the hall lay a child's Teddy bear. In an era of flamboyant revolutionary figures such as Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Indonesia's mercurial Sukarno, Benkhedda is something of a surprise. Of medium height and medium age (42), diffident in manner, ascetic in habits, with his voice emotionlessly level and his expression forever veiled by dark glasses, Benkhedda resembles his nickname of M'sieu Tout le Monde (Mr. Every body). No flag-waving Moslem...
...small fraction of the French army that feeds it with arms, munitions and men. If De Gaulle is correct in believing that the army will obey his orders, the S.A.O. will wither away. If De Gaulle is wrong and the French army does not respect the ceasefire, then, says Benkhedda, the F.L.N. is ready to resume the struggle. Some F.L.N. leaders believe that the S.A.O. cannot be liquidated for several years and plan to organize virtually the entire Moslem population into a home guard to hold it in check...
...occasion. In a single night he had driven 500 miles to Tunis from the Libyan capital of Tripoli, where the Algerian National Revolutionary Council had been in session, to tell waiting newsmen of the cease-fire agreement with France. By an overwhelming vote, the council empowered Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda to conclude the agreement as he saw fit, without the need of obtaining further council approval...