Word: politburos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancient attitudes that Peking's modern masters have left unassailed-if only in self-defense. Party Boss Mao Tse-tung is 70 and beginning to show it. Premier Chou Enlai, 66, is ailing, as is Defense Minister Lin Piao, at 56 a mere bean sprout in the Peking Politburo, whose average age is 65. Often mentioned as Mao's successor, Party Secretary-General Teng Hsaio-ping is over 60. Beset by intimations of mortality, the Red leadership has launched a campaign to "cultivate millions of successors to carry on the cause...
China watchers like to keep tabs on the top dozen men of the Communist Politburo. Last week they were asking each other, "What has happened to Chou En-lai?" Peking's Premier has not been seen at a public function for more than a month. He returned from his tour of Africa last February looking tired and sickly, and he is known to have rested for two weeks in southwest ern China before resuming his duties...
...during Algeria's war of independence, Colonel Mohammed Chaabani was "the seigneur of the sands." A tough, canny guerrilla leader, he dominated a sere swatch of the Sahara and the rugged Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria. After independence, Chaabani joined Premier Ahmed ben Bella's Politburo and the army's general staff, but quickly grew restive under Ben Bella's heavy-handed Marxist dictatorship. Last June that uneasiness boiled over into open rebellion, and Chaabani took to the hills with a hard core of his veteran troops...
...Historic Chief." The man on the mountain was Colonel Mohammed Chaabani, 32, onetime member of Ben Bella's ruling Politburo and the Algerian army's general staff. A tough, capable guerrilla leader during Algeria's 71-year war with France, Chaabani had turned the Aures and part of the Sahara south of the range into his personal fief. His men-historically mutinous Chaouia tribesmen whose ancestors had rebelled against Romans, Byzantines and Arabs alike-are equipped with armored cars, tanks and artillery, thus representing a more serious military threat to Ben Bella than the 2,000 Berber...
...Bella himself was quick to react. Going on television, he damned Chaabani for undertaking a "criminal adventure" and drummed him in absentia out of the army, the Politburo and the Central Committee. At the same time, a police roundup of other critics of the regime seemed imminent. Missing from their homes last week were Ferhat Abbas, onetime F.L.N. chief and former president of the National Assembly, and Mohammed Boudiaf, a former Politburo member. Another former Ben Bella prison mate, ex-Vice Premier Rabah Bitat, was reported under house arrest...