Word: khedda
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...further proof that President Bendjedid Chadli intends to relax the oppressive political atmosphere that prevailed during Boumedienne's autocratic 13-year rule. Taking over after Boumedienne's death last December, Chadli has released two jailed comrades of Ben Bella from pre-independence days-Ferhat Abbas and Ben Khedda-as well as eleven political prisoners who had been convicted of trying to overthrow Boumedienne in 1969. Associates of Ben Bella were exultant. Said Bachir Boumaza, his onetime Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who is in exile in Geneva: "We are now entering a new phase in Algeria...
...Baraket (Enough). Ahmed Ben Bella, at least temporarily in control as head of Algeria's Political Bureau, gave the voters no alternative to a single list of 196 candidates. The list had been purged of 59 names, including such Ben Bella opponents as ex-Premier Benyoussef Ben-khedda, Guerrilla Heroine Djamila Bou-hired, who had been tortured by French paratroops, and Mustapha Lacheraf, who spent five years in French jails as a fellow prisoner of Ben Bella. One unpurged candidate, Mohammed Boudiaf, refused to serve because "the lists haven't been chosen in a democratic manner...
...medium age (42), diffident in manner, ascetic in habits, with his voice emotionlessly level and his expression forever veiled by dark glasses, Benkhedda resembles his nickname of M'sieu Tout le Monde (Mr. Every body). No flag-waving Moslem mob has ever ecstatically screamed his name. Ben khedda came up through the ranks of the F.L.N. as a machine-minded organizer...
...devout Moslem who neither drinks nor smokes, Youssef Ben Khedda is not regarded as a Communist fin 1956 he actually liquidated a splinter group of Red terrorists in the F.L.N.). though he approves such Communist techniques as the nationalization of industry and political instruction of the Algerian masses. The most potent members of his new Cabinet are such like-minded ex-terrorists as his old comrade in arms. Belkacem Krim, who stays on as Vice Premier and Interior Minister, and tough, able Saad Dahlab. 38, who takes over Krim's old job as Foreign Minister...
...Premier only to gain his fagade of respectability. If Abbas returned to Algiers as head of state, they argued, his personal popularity might prevent fulfillment of their ''revolutionary aims." Among them is the liquidation of rich Moslem landowners, and there seems to be no place in Khedda's Algeria for the European minority of one million, except as tame technicians of the Algerian "revolution...