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...civilian plotters that included Boumediene's Labor Minister Abdelaziz Zerdani. Flamboyant but Uneducated. Tensions between Boumediene and his army chief had been building ever since the two men combined their forces to overthrow the demagogic Ahmed ben Bella in June 1965. Zbiri, 37, a flamboyant but uneducated Berber tribesman who had fought against the French as a guerrilla chieftain, was a believer in the purity of the revolution and all its impossible promises of socialist equality and prosperity...
Little Difference. The ease with which Boumediene put down the conspirators does not mean that his troubles are over. Zbiri, still at large, commands the loyalties of a good many of Algeria's military men. Also behind him are the country's Berber minority, the revolutionary zealots who despise Boumediene's practical technocrats and, in all probability, the 200,000 members of the Algerian General Workers Union, whose power Boumediene has systematically underminded...
...special cell at Algiers' Maison Carrée, Berber Chieftain Hocine Aït Ahmed, 38, jailed since October 1964 for his campaign to overthrow ex-President Ahmed ben Bella, received special treatment. He got better rations than other prisoners, family and friends were allowed to drop in and chat, Wife Djainila could stay overnight, and negotiators from Strongman Colonel Houari Boumedienne stopped by to ask if Aït Ahmed wouldn't agree to support the new regime. All to no avail. One night last week, when Djamila, other relatives, and neighbors trooped homeward, the group also...
Born. To King Hassan II, 36, autocratic ruler of trouble-plagued Morocco; and Lalla Latifa, 21, daughter of a Berber tribal chieftain: their third child, second daughter; in Rabat...
...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...