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...absentia out of the army, the Politburo and the Central Committee. At the same time, a police roundup of other critics of the regime seemed imminent. Missing from their homes last week were Ferhat Abbas, onetime F.L.N. chief and former president of the National Assembly, and Mohammed Boudiaf, a former Politburo member. Another former Ben Bella prison mate, ex-Vice Premier Rabah Bitat, was reported under house arrest...
...dreamy Marxist, Aït Ahmed, 37, opposed Ben Bella's outlawing the Communist Party last year. Then last June, on the floor of the National Assembly, Aït Ahmed denounced the government's arrest of an independent chief and Ben Bella critic, leftist Mohammed Boudiaf. Repairing to his Kabylia village of Michelet, Aït Ahmed formed a tiny, clandestine party, the Front of Socialist Forces. With hardly any difficulty, the F.S.F. convinced over half the voters in Kabylia to boycott last month's referendums that rubber-stamped Ben Bella's one-party constitution...
...privilege" by government-run newspapers and drummed out of the 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...
Revolutionary Play. Ben Bella has probably jailed fewer people in his first year of power than most Afro-Asian revolutionary leaders. His opposition ranges from National Assembly Speaker Ferhat Abbas, who complains that socialism is coming too swiftly, to Marxist Theoretician Mohammed Boudiaf, who complains that socialism is not coming quickly enough. Boudiaf and three of his supporters have been under house arrest since June, and another opponent, Mohammed Khider, has been exiled. At one time Ben Bella seemed threatened by shadowy, ascetic Colonel Houari Boumedienne; as Defense Minister and army chief, he has so much power that he probably...
...been purged of 59 names, including such Ben Bella opponents as ex-Premier Benyoussef Ben-khedda, Guerrilla Heroine Djamila Bou-hired, who had been tortured by French paratroops, and Mustapha Lacheraf, who spent five years in French jails as a fellow prisoner of Ben Bella. One unpurged candidate, Mohammed Boudiaf, refused to serve because "the lists haven't been chosen in a democratic manner...