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...Strongman Ben Bella gave his answer at an Algiers "press conference" with 250 visiting Communist journalists: "The agreements of Evian are not the Koran for us. It will be necessary to revise and readjust them in regard to our socialist objectives." Furthermore, he warned, if France sets off any new nuclear explosions in its Algerian Sahara testing grounds, there will be "an acceleration of our socialism...
...safe. Well aware that he would be the first unbearded Communist chief of state to visit Latin America, he accepted only where he could hope for an enthusiastic reception: Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Mexico, all of which profess an "independent" line between East and West. Last week the Yugoslav strongman was halfway through his tour, and he had seen little enthusiasm...
Ever since the ruling Baath Party in Syria and Iraq fell out with Gamal Abdel Nasser, damping hopes of a new Arab federation, the Baathists have loudly maintained that there was still room for cooperation with Egypt's strongman. Last week their thin façade split crashingly apart. On the very day originally set for a plebiscite in the three countries to form a tripartite nation, the Baathist high command denounced Nasser by name and called on Egyptians to rise up against...
...newspaper, ordered the 200 employees out within ten minutes. Simultaneously, out in the provinces police swooped on L'Echo d'Oran and La Dépêche de Constantine. Thus last week, only days after formalizing his one-man, one-party rule (TIME, Sept. 20), Algerian Strongman Ahmed ben Bella seized his country's last three remaining French-owned newspapers. To Ben Bella they were dangerous relics of colonialism and tantalizing propaganda tools. Said he: "It is not enough to inform the masses. They must be politicized...
Only a Flag. Actually, it all only sealed what had been fact for a year: the emergence of Ben Bella, the 43-year-old son of a peasant, as strongman of the Algerian revolution. Since independence in 1962, Ben Bella has elbowed out virtually all his fellow "historic chiefs" of the long guerrilla war against France. Earlier this year his staff, with help from Yugoslavian* and French advisers, drew up Algeria's first constitution. Approved by the Ben Bella-controlled Assembly last month, the country's Magna Carta pronounced the Ben Bella-controlled Front to be the nation...