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...authentic hero to millions of Algerians. In 1949 he held up the Oran central post office to get funds for the revolution, was later captured by the French, and escaped from jail. In 1956 Ben Bella and three other top leaders of the F.L.N. were arrested when their Moroccan plane was intercepted by the French, and he spent the next five years in French prisons. After France and the F.L.N. signed the Evian truce agreements, Ben Bella was released, and soon let it be known that he accepted neither the policy nor the authority of Benkhedda. Ben Bella...
...with whom Ben Bella has most in common are the top military lead ers of the F.L.N. army units stationed in Tunisia and Morocco. Unlike the 70,000 F.L.N. guerrillas inside Algeria-most of whom seemed loyal to Benkhedda-the Tunisian and Moroccan detachments have done little fighting against the French. They are uniformed and disciplined men. armed with Russian and Czech weapons, indoctrinated by Marxist commissars...
...Algerian F.L.N. army emerged last week from seven years of obscure guerilla war with France. At once tightly guarded Camp Ben M'hidi, near the Moroccan border town of Oudjda. newsmen witnessed a march-past of 1,200 F.L.N...
leader freed last month by the French after five years' imprisonment. For Ben Bella it was truly a homecoming, since he had been born of an Algerian father and Moroccan mother within 15 miles of Oudjda. The camp, formerly a French supply depot, was decorated with rebel flags and banners proclaiming in French and Arabic such long-winded slogans as "The triumph of our revolution demands absolute unity, organized action, solid leadership and well-defined aims." On an inspection of border outposts within gunshot of French positions. Ben Bella, though still pale and out of condition from his long...
...southern Italy. She does so for De Sica in Two Women-hair blowing in her eyes, dressed sexlessly in threadbare clothes, pouting, cursing, writing chapters in the air with her hands. She plays a ferociously protective mother who is helpless to prevent her daughter's rape by Moroccan soldiers. It is a brutal but honest film...