Word: houari
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most dangerous antagonist of all may well be thin, fiery Colonel Houari Boumedienne, commander of the regular army (see box). In borrowed French helicopters, Ben Bella had to fly twice to the front lines to get Boumedienne to agree to the ceasefire. There was an ''acrimonious" meeting at Orleansville, where Boumedienne argued bitterly against the deal made with Wilaya 4 just as he was at the point of breaking through the rebel defenses. The regular army, he declared, was being cheated of its triumphal entry into Algiers, where his officers anticipated fat political jobs and his men dreamed...
Four wilaya chiefs support the Politburo, headed by volatile Ahmed ben Bella ; so does the 45,000-man regular army commanded by lean, tuberculous Colonel Houari Boumedienne. In opposition are the 20.000 troops of Wilaya 4, which consists of Algiers and the surrounding countryside, and is commanded by a 28-year-old former medical student, Colonel Si Hassan, who has the same Marxist views as his archfoe, Boumedienne. The 10,000 seasoned guerrilla fighters of Wilaya j, covering the rugged mountains of Kaby-lia, also oppose Ben Bella and have promised to come to Si Hassan...
...most powerful force in the A.L.N. is former Army Chief of Staff Colonel Houari Boumedienne, 37, a gaunt, chainsmoking ascetic who wears no insignia on his ill-fitting khaki uniform. One of the best-educated men in the F.L.N., Boumedienne attended the two finest Moslem universities, al-Azhar in Cairo and Zi-touna in Tunis, is the editor of a military review. El Djiech (The Army). At present, Boumedienne backs Ben Bella, but he wants to make the army the backbone of the Algerian nation. Boumedienne opposes close economic ties with France as a form of-"neo-colonialism," is against...
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...
...capital" at Tlemcen, Ben Bella also seemed to be losing ground to Colonel Houari Boumedienne, whose dismissal as F.L.N. army chief of staff last month precipitated the row with Benkhedda. It was Boumedienne, a pale, brown-haired former schoolteacher and pronounced left-winger, who last week angrily turned down the Orleansville proposal while Ben Bella was still studying it. Belkacem Krim and Mohammed Boudiaf had been named for the politburo, but Boumedienne denounced them both as "usurpers" and accused them of having "collaborated" with France in the days before Algerian independence...