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...react. Going on television, he damned Chaabani for undertaking a "criminal adventure" and drummed him in 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...
Algeria's Premier Ahmed ben Bella is moving ever closer to complete one-man rule. Last week venerable, ailing ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas, 63, quit his post as Speaker of the Assembly and handed out a 15-page critique of the government. He was chiefly upset because Ben Bella keeps ignoring the Assembly, even read the country's new, strongly centralized constitution to a meeting of his own followers at an Algiers movie theater before submitting it to the Deputies. Asked Abbas: "Why should we agree to a constitution that has been prostituted in a cinema?" Abbas conceded...
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...
Marxist Patter. Personal power more than principle is what is at stake. To see the conflict as a conservative Benkhedda v. leftist Ben Bella is to make it too simple. Ben Bella's support ranges from conservative ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas to Red-leaning Colonel Houari Boumedienne, former army Chief of Staff, whose firing by Benkhedda in June precipitated the split between the warring chiefs. Benkhedda himself reached power as an activist leftist. Ben Bella's army support comes from the military chiefs in the wilayas, who during the war won a certain amount of autonomy...
...recalls wanting to cry out in protest when his history teacher duly noted that Algeria had never been independent-that when the French took it over in 1830, it was only a Turkish colony.-Graduating from the lycee, Benkhedda went on to study pharmacy-as did ex-Premier Ferhat Abbas-at the University of Algiers. He read incendiary tracts by Voltaire and Rousseau about human dignity, liberty and the rights of man-a reminder that the Algerian Revolution, like most colonial independence movements, really grew out of Western ideals. Benkhedda argued the night through with friends over how the Moslem...