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...Boumedienne's death last December, Chadli has released two jailed comrades of Ben Bella from pre-independence days-Ferhat Abbas and Ben Khedda-as well as eleven political prisoners who had been convicted of trying to overthrow Boumedienne in 1969. Associates of Ben Bella were exultant. Said Bachir Boumaza, his onetime Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who is in exile in Geneva: "We are now entering a new phase in Algeria's history." Still, Ben Bella was unlikely to try a political comeback. Though he is now free to see visitors at his new home...
...confide his plans to Colonel Tahar Zbiri, a protégé of Ben Bella and-he thought-a personal foe of Boumedienne. Still aggrieved by a public bawling out by Ben Bella, Zbiri exposed the plot to Boumedienne, who then directed Zbiri, Minister of Economics Bachir Boumaza and Major Draia, commander of the national security units charged with protecting the President, to arrest Ben Bella. Though they captured him at 3 in the morning, Boumedienne's men took no chances of a rescue by Ben Bella partisans. They hustled their prisoner aboard a Russian-built torpedo boat, landed...
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