Word: houari
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...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...
...Then, he claims, the National Revolutionary Council, the quasi-parliamentary body of F.L.N., backed him against Benkhedda, who simply ignored the council's wishes. Ben Bella was persuaded not to bring the fight out into the open until independence was gained. Meanwhile he joined with lean, tuberculous Colonel Houari Boumedienne, F.L.N. army commander outside Algeria, in working out a plot to seize power. On independence day, F.L.N. army detachments from Tunisia and Morocco were to cross into Algeria, declare the Provisional Government invalid, and call on Ben Bella to form a new government...
...highway out of Algiers, four Frenchmen were kidnaped last week, and four more were mowed down in an ambush in the center of Affreville, just 44 miles from the capital. Reshuffling the top command, the F.L.N. installed a tough, 28-year-old guerrilla with the nom de guerre of Houari Boumedienne as rebel army chief of staff...