Word: politburo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four wilaya chiefs support the Politburo, headed by volatile Ahmed ben Bella ; so does the 45,000-man regular army commanded by lean, tuberculous Colonel Houari Boumedienne. In opposition are the 20.000 troops of Wilaya 4, which consists of Algiers and the surrounding countryside, and is commanded by a 28-year-old former medical student, Colonel Si Hassan, who has the same Marxist views as his archfoe, Boumedienne. The 10,000 seasoned guerrilla fighters of Wilaya j, covering the rugged mountains of Kaby-lia, also oppose Ben Bella and have promised to come to Si Hassan...
...time during last week's blood letting, no one seemed to know who the enemy was - or, for that matter, what the shooting was all about. Finally, a Wilaya 4 officer explained that some 500 well-armed men loyal to the Politburo had entered Algiers disguised as civilians and were scattered in small groups all over town. The young leaders of Wilaya 4 vaguely accused the Politburo of "betraying the martyrs of the revolution.'' For their part, the officers admit to murders and lootings but argue, in one officer's words: "Why should we respect...
...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 power over to the politburo, will remain on as figurehead chief of government until elections to the new Constituent Assembly on Aug. 27. He won only a promise "in principle" from Ben Bella that the Constituent Assembly would be allowed...
...Gates of Hell. Ben Bella began last week's days of crisis late Sunday evening with the announcement from his headquarters at Tlemcen, near the Moroccan border, that he had formed a seven-man politburo that would oust the "usurpers" of the provisional government (G.P.R.A.) from power and run the country until the formation of a constituent assembly. Premier Benkhedda was specifically excluded from the politburo, and only two members of his government (Ait Akhmed and Mohammed Boudiaf) were in; the rest were all Ben Bella men. Meanwhile, the military forces loyal to Ben Bella solidified control...
Next day. Premier Benkhedda caved in and accepted the authority of the new politburo. Though Ben Bella was still 285 miles away in Tlemcen, Benkhedda's Cabinet ministers began to flee Algiers, leaving Benkhedda holed up in the Palais d'Eté, guarded by a 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...