Word: birtouta
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...onetime hero of Third World leftists. Ousted from the presidency in a 1965 coup by his Defense Minister, Houari Boumedienne, Ahmed ben Bella had been held incommunicado with his wife and two adopted children in a variety of apartments, most recently in a heavily guarded two-room flat in Birtouta, ten miles from Algiers. According to his wife Zohra, the 62-year-old Ben Bella emerged from his ordeal retaining "all his revolutionary fervor...
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