Word: boussouf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bella's old cronies proved more docile. Only two Cabinet ministers followed him into prison; the others eagerly joined Boumedienne. One former exile, Abdul Hafid Boussouf, returned to take a post in the Defense Ministry, and ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas might act as figurehead Premier of the new government...
...rebels have offered legal assurances of protecting white settler rights, but they seem to have designs on colon farm land that would conflict with such guarantees. Says Abdul Hand Boussouf, the secretive young (32) man generally rated the single most powerful leader in the F.L.N.'s inner councils: "The big estates will be broken up. I have a cousin with several thousand acres. They will be taken away from him. We want to make Algeria a country with totally different structures...
Though nominally Premier of the provisional F.L.N. government, Ferhat Abbas, 61, has been considered a convenient front man by top "Defense Committee" operatives, such as tough, secretive Abdulhafid Boussouf and Lakdar ben Tobbal...
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