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...opposing Moslem F.L.N. factions opened up on each other with everything but bullets. While moderate Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda tried to spread his influence from Algiers to the southeast, his bitter rival, radical Vice Premier ben Bella, entered western Algeria for a triumphal march to Oran. After a brief stop at Marnia, his birthplace near the Moroccan border, Ben Bella and his ever-lengthening motorcade drove on to the city of Tlemcen (pop. 80,000). Thousands of veiled women and turbaned men lined the streets, while hundreds of pigtailed little girls in the national colors-white dresses, red sashes, green kerchiefs...
F.L.N. representatives pleaded for responsible behavior. A speaker told a Moslem rally at Blida: "Independence is not a panacea. The watchwords are work, will power, obedience, discipline." In Tunis the F.L.N. leaders who seven years ago launched the war against France prepared for the return to Algeria. But as peace moved ever closer between Moslems and Europeans, there were rumors of violent discord in the F.L.N., with the lines being drawn between Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda, who heads the moderates, and the left-wing radicals under Vice Premier Mohammed ben Bella, who argues that the F.L.N. is being too soft...
...Near fabled Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet republic, Chairman Hakim Mamadiarov of the Karl Marx collective farm was denounced for living like an Oriental potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate residence, garden, and private herd of cows. Hakim himself has a house assessed at $22,200, plus a Volga auto, two motorbikes, a radio-phonograph console, a tape recorder and several TV sets. Of two peasants who protested his running of the farm, one was badly beaten, the other vanished. Demanding...
...Algeria, Jews fear the onset of independence this week even more than their Christian pied-noir neighbors. Many were active supporters of the underground Secret Army; in Constantine, for example, the first anti-Moslem commando force was composed largely of Jews-and the F.L.N. has not forgotten...
...many Algerian towns, Moslems have stopped patronizing Jewish-owned movie houses. In the streets of Djelfa, Moslem children chant: "Ben-Gurion to the gallows, Ben Bella to the palace." In the last 18 months, entire communities of Arabized Jews from the Sahara, whose speech and dress are indistinguishable from their Moslem neighbors, have left the country...