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Considered the ablest and most popular of the F.L.N. rebels, Ben Bella was kidnaped in 1956 when, together with four other Algerian leaders, he boarded a Moroccan plane to fly to Tunis. The French pilot unexpectedly landed at Algiers airport and handed his passengers over to the French, who kept them prisoners for the next five years. In accordance with the ceasefire, De Gaulle's government last week released Ben Bella and his friends from confinement in the Chateau D'Au-noy, near Paris. The French wanted to return Ben Bella and his companions to Morocco, but both...
...F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...
...Simultaneously, France will release Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues, who were seized five years ago when the French pilot of their Moroccan plane landed at Algiers. Ben Bella and his friends will be flown from their place of detention, the Château d'Aulnoy near Paris, to Rabat, where a heroes' welcome is being prepared for them by Morocco's King Hassan...
While the war was ending, the desperate extremists of the Secret Army Organization stepped up their terrorist campaign in Algeria to an unprecedented pitch. Two French army pilots took off in their planes and strafed an F.L.N. army camp across the Moroccan border. While veiled Moslem women mourned the slain, the pilots returned to their base in Algeria and promptly deserted. In a single day in Algeria, 75 people were killed or wounded. In Algiers, European gunmen spread chaos, killing at least 20 anti-S.A.O. commandos of De Gaulle's government. The police received emergency calls reporting murders...
...alone with his wife (his family of five is now grown up) in a cottage on the coast of Wales near the village his longtime friend Dylan Thomas immortalized in Under Milkwood. When not writing, he has kept busy enough, bustling around the world. He was a friend of Moroccan Chieftain El Glaui, has hobnobbed with Balkan rebels, shipped on freighters, and he has been described as a "sea pirate come to land." In 1924, he wrote what is called Britain's first radio drama. Danger, for which he still gets royalties; he served a wartime stint with...