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...years, Houari Boumedienne ran Algeria like the battlefront commander he had been in the war for independence from France. He was not only his country's President but also its Minister of Defense, President of the Council of the Revolution and chief of the ruling National Liberation Front (F.L.N.) party. When a 1976 constitution enabled him to name a Vice President and Premier, he left both posts vacant. Wielding his influence shrewdly, he built Algeria into a political force to be reckoned with and was determined to make it an industrial power as well. When he died last week...
...Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, secrecy was a lifelong obsession. Born Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharouba, he borrowed a nom de guerre from an Algerian village during the revolution against France and kept it ever since. If his movements were mysterious, so was the way in Boumedienne which he ran his country for 13 years. Last week the mystery continued as Boumedienne, 53, with a blood clot on the brain, lay near death in an Algiers hospital...
...year guerrilla struggle, Ahmed ben Bella, an exiled freedom fighter known to his countrymen as Aminedi (Invisible One), surfaced after almost six years in French jails and quickly assumed control of the new nation. Three years later he vanished again, deposed in a bloodless coup by his army chief, Houari Boumedienne...
While Sadat and Carter conferred in Washington, Algerian President Houari Boumedienne was host at another kind of summit taking place in Algiers. There the Arab leaders of the so-called steadfast states, who oppose Sadat's peace initiative, were trying to develop a new strategy of their own. As at a previous meeting in Tripoli, the results were minimal...
Amid the growing complexity of East-West power games around the Horn of Africa, relations between Cairo and Tripoli remained tense last week, even though the shooting had stopped. At the urging of Arab peacemakers, in particular Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, both sides agreed to a mini-summit to settle the miniwar. There was no certainty that either Sadat or Gaddafi-who was mysteriously out of public view during the fighting -would attend. The mood was surly, particularly since losses appeared to have been high for so brief...