Word: houari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning, army tanks prowled the boulevards, and Radio Algiers began playing Arabic patriotic songs. Abruptly at noon it broke off the music to announce that the government had been taken over by a new Council of Revolution, led by the Defense Minister and army commander, Colonel Houari Boumedienne. The regime of "personal power" was over, said the announcer, and "Ben Bella would meet the fate reserved by history to all despots." A communique signed by Boumedienne charged Ben Bella with an arm-long list of faults: "bad management, waste of public funds, instability, demagogy, anarchy, lying, improvisation, mystification, threats, blackmail...
Chaabani's rebellion grew from his resentment of Ben Bella's Defense Minister Houari Boumedienne, who after independence was won two years ago removed combat-hardened but unschooled officers from the army and replaced them with French-trained officers, many of whom had spent the war in exile. Chaabani was also opposed to the Marxist extremes of Ben Bella's regime, a sentiment he shared with former Party Bigwig Mohammed Khider...
Loyal Commander. But Ben Bella's hold on the government and the nation really depends on the support of the 50,000-man Algerian army and its ascetic commander, Colonel Houari Boumedienne, who is also Defense Minister and Vice President of Algeria. With a monthly salary of about $50, the average soldier is far better off than the average Algerian citizen, and in every crisis so far, Boumedienne has proved loyal to Ben Bella...
...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...
...ratifying his unopposed candidacy for a five-year term as President, the Algerian leader also appointed a new, 15-member Cabinet of "qualified militants." Most of the ministers are distinguished by their loyalty to Ben Bella; five represent the army, which is run by shadowy No. 2 man Colonel Houari Boumedienne. At week's end Ben Bella prepared to journey to the U.S., where he plans to address the U.N. and, he hopes, make an aid-seeking side visit to President Kennedy...