Word: yahiaoui
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Chadli's name will be presented as the sole candidate in a pro forma election on Feb. 7. His nomination settles, for the moment at least, a division within the Revolutionary Council. As Boumedienne lay dying, Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui began lining up support by asserting that he would be a rigid guardian of Boumedienne's highly centralized, Islamic, socialist policies. Another faction coalesced behind Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a cosmopolitan diplomat who is said to favor strengthening the economy and improving ties with the West...
...when the 3,290 delegates to the F.L.N.'s fourth congress convened in Algiers last week to ratify the council's choice, neither Yahiaoui nor Bouteflika had gained a majority in the Council of the Revolution. The reason: neither man had won the support of the army, which had virtual veto power over the choice. The impasse forced the congress to add another day to its scheduled four, but in the end, Chadli, the military's candidate, prevailed...
...leader. Still, Western experts were focusing on several possible contenders, and Bitat was not among them. The leaders: Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 41, an agile, Westernized diplomat; Colonel Ahmed Bencherif, 51, former commandant of the national gendarmerie and now Water Resources Minister, and Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui, 46, a devout Muslim and pro-Soviet politician who is currently running the F.L.N. Outside the council, the name most often mentioned is that of Colonel Benjedid Chadli, 52, military commander of the Oran region, who took over as "coordinator" of the armed forces during Boumedienne's long illness. Virtually no chance...
...eminence is ending. No successor has been groomed, and Boumedienne's demise could lead to a power struggle. Some observers believe that the two factions in the nine-man Council of the Revolution, one led by dapper Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 41, the other by Colonel Mohammed Salah Yahiaoui, 46, head of the National Liberation Front, Algeria's only political party, could work out an amicable succession...
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