Word: hadj
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saudi Arabia and the diverse sheikdoms along the Gulf, promised Saudi Arabia a new medical school, complete with professors. He brought along a trade pact that will supply arid Arabia with fresh meat, vegetables and eggs. And he offered the Saudi airline a share of the lucrative annual hadj flights, the trips to Mecca by devout pilgrims from Iran...
...French prisons (with Ben Bella himself). Told that Aït Ahmed was now wearing an Algerian army uniform, Ben Bella laughed: "He never got a chance to wear it during the war. I hope he enjoys it." As for the other rebel chieftain, Colonel Mohand Ou el Hadj, who has a brilliant wartime record against the French, Ben Bella contemptuously blamed his defection on the fact that "we were going to nationalize his restaurant in Algiers...
...revolution must go on!" cried Strongman Ahmed ben Bella. Countered Colonel Mohand Ou el Hadj: "The time has come to give the right of speech to all revolutionaries." Thus the first revolt broke out last week against Ben Bella's year-old regime. To be sure, the motives included provincial pride, poverty and political ambition. But the root cause was Ben Bella's drive toward absolute power at the expense of his onetime, rebel comrades in Algeria's struggle for independence. Stronghold of the revolt was fabled Kabylia, a sweep of razor-spined mountains and deep gorges...
Among those won over to Aït Ahmed's movement was another disgruntled ex-rebel, Colonel Ou el Hadj, 52, the Kabylia army commander. A Berber and onetime jeweler, Ou el Hadj had served as wartime boss of Wilaya III, the Algerian guerrillas' savagely aggressive Kabylia military zone. Ou el Hadj had become furious with Ben Bella's army boss and No. 2 man, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, for purging the ex-guerrillas in favor of more obedient officers, many of whom spent the war in exile...
...which they had ringed round with machine guns. In Algeria's first popular demonstration against Ben Bella, 2,000 turbaned men and shawled women flocked into the town square, unintimidated by a government helicopter that fluttered past overhead. Sharing the platform, Aït Ahmed and Ou el Hadj proclaimed what began, at least, as a peaceful insurrection. Aït Ahmed called Ben Bella a "potentate," charged him with "betraying his comrades" and "destroying the revolution," added: "If the government wants to change its ways, we are ready to discuss things sincerely. If it refuses, we refuse...