Word: ferhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...release was further proof that President Bendjedid Chadli intends to relax the oppressive political atmosphere that prevailed during Boumedienne's autocratic 13-year rule. Taking over after 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...