Word: kabylia
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...facing new complications. From Algiers, word came that Benkhedda was finished, and that his future role-no matter what his title-could only be a subordinate one. But the anti-Ben Bella cause is still being upheld by hard-bitten Belkacem Krim, who effectively controls the mountainous region of Kabylia, and by subtle, self-educated Mohammed Boudiaf, 40, who spent most of the war in a French prison with Mohammed ben Bella and grew to mistrust...
Paris casually dismissed the revolt as an outbreak of "banditry." But as farmhouses of European settlers went up in flames, troop convoys were ambushed in the deep valleys of the Aurès range, and guerrillas were trained and organized in the inaccessible crags of Kabylia, the French struck back. They blew up Moslem villages, made wholesale arrests, created empty regions known as zones interdites, where anything that moved was shot...
...Khedda promptly disappeared into the underground, surfaced a few months later in the Kabylia Mountains as the political commissar of an F.L.N. guerrilla band headed by famed Belkacem Krim. Moving on to Algiers, Ben Khedda helped plan and carry out the ruthless terrorist campaign in which killings of Europeans ran as high as a hundred a month. He lived under four aliases, grew a large mustache, boldly frequented the Cafe Otomatic, a favorite hangout of European rightists. The F.L.N. grip on Algiers was not broken until the summer of 1957. when General Jacques Massu and his French paratroops began...
...F.L.N. without a military force in being. To meet the threat of peace, the rebels last week redoubled their efforts in Algeria with a rash of isolated assassinations and bomb throwings. At Miliana, 90 miles from Algiers, rebels ambushed a convoy, killing eleven gendarmes. At Sidi Aich, in rugged Kabylia, 14 Moslem soldiers in the French army deserted to the F.L.N., killing four French soldiers and four Moslems who refused to join them...
...Negotiators. The French delegation is headed by Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe, 59; the F.L.N. by small, tough Belkacem Krim, 38. A former French army corporal, Krim rose from guerrilla fighter in his native Kabylia to become field commander of the entire rebel army. Krim, five times sentenced to death in absentia by French military courts, is the only one of the nine "historical leaders" who began the insurrection in 1954 still at large (four were killed; four are French prisoners...