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Garrison Joys. Though he had temporarily disposed of one opponent, Ben Bella had plenty left. The rugged Berber guerrillas of Wilaya 3 were still holding out in the impregnable mountains of Kabylia. led by hard-bitten Belkacem Krim. who negotiated the Evian agreements with France and may still have the power to oust Ben Bella. Also ranged against Ben Bella is the bulk of organized labor in Algeria, led by realistic unionists such as Ali Yahia, an ex-schoolteacher who believes that living standards can be maintained only through cooperation with France. Even more bitterly opposed to the Politburo...
...outwaiting his enemies until they realized that public opinion was on his side. Holed up in the rugged Kabylia region, where they had promised to fight to "the last drop of blood." his two chief opponents, shrewd, sick (he has only one lung) Mohammed Boudiaf and clever, tough Belkacem Krim, finally saw the futility of their fight, agreed to negotiations with Ben Bella's top aide. Mohammed Khider. Boudiaf and Krim capitulated without even a face-saving compromise. They accepted intact Ben Bella's seven-man politburo, which included Boudiaf but excluded Krim. Premier Benkhedda passed all policymaking...
...company of loyal soldiers. (Toward week's end, the ministers shamefacedly began to slink back into the city; one sneaked upstairs to his quarters in the Hotel Aletti through the back door.) Two government ministers, however, left Algiers not in flight but ostensibly to fight. Tough, able Belkacem Krim, who conducted the F.L.N.'s peace negotiations with the French, and shrewd, ambitious Mohammed Boudiaf, a onetime jailmate and implacable foe of Ben Bella's, set up headquarters in the rugged, all but impenetrable Kabylia area and vowed to resist Ben Bella's takeover "to the last...
...Bella sent his most trusted lieutenant, Mohammed Khidder, to Algiers to work out a peaceful takeover agreement with Benkhedda. His forces continued to fan out over the country, however, took control of the important east Algeria seaport of Philippeville. Unexpectedly Krim also showed up in Algiers, speaking more mellowly; he would not attack the Ben Bella forces, he said, would only resist any invasion of the Kabylia...
...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...