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<text id=90TT2627>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: World Notes:Algeria
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 61
World Notes
ALGERIA
Ben Bella Unbound
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<p> After a decade in exile, former Algerian President Ahmed
Ben Bella made a rousing return last week, calling on the
government to resign and urging citizens to support Iraq's
Saddam Hussein. "Telephone the Iraqis, send telegrams and tell
them you are with them," he said in an hour-long speech in
Algiers. "Go by the hundreds of thousands to the Iraqi embassy,
and don't leave until they sign you up as volunteers."
</p>
<p> One of the most charismatic leaders of the eight-year
revolution against France, Ben Bella (known as Aminedi, or
Invisible One) became Algeria's first President in 1963.
Ineffective in office, he was overthrown in a 1965 coup and
spent 14 years under house arrest. Ben Bella, 73, could have
returned earlier but risked being arrested for terrorist attacks
that the government said were carried out by activists loyal to
his exile group. He also said he would like to form a new
coalition to challenge the long-ruling National Liberation
Front. "We have huge problems," he said. "I hope I can do
something to restore our dreams."
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